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Universal DH is interesting. And the wet rag seems so specific that I want to know what the story was....was someone putting glue powder in their mouth? :-) And I agree RJM...I don't love fighting as a rule and I understand why they did it but the unsportsmanlike conduct rules seems antithetical to some of the posturing that is baseball (in general baseball always managed to have huge bench clearings without real harm being done)... Most people I know can't stand the runner on second base.

I hate the extra innings, runner on second rule. ASA softball used it when my daughter played. I would rather MLB play twelve innings and call the game a tie. Wet rag, LOL. I can imagine what will be on pitcher’s rags. Can you picture Earl Weaver managing under COVID rules? He would burst into flames if forced to follow the rules. Then suspended game continuation works for this year playing a lot of the same teams in the same region in a short span. It’s not needed in the long run. I believe...

We saw the runner on second at youth baseball, we called it California rules, but I don't know why? So maybe that one is rolling up? Similarly to position players pitching up through high school. Not sure what that rule is at college level.

Which of the new rules do we like/think will stick or roll down to NCAA/youth baseball? Will they have any impact on opportunities in baseball? Which ones do you like, not like or don't understand (as in why did they do that)? Here are the new rules and their description from mlb.com https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-rule-changes-for-2020 Universal designated hitter While the American League adopted the DH rule in 1973, pitchers have continued to hit in games played at National League ballparks.

MLB has discussed for several years how to get rid of long extra inning games. #1 they deplete pitching staffs. #2 they typically go late into the night and get turned off. Most are boring.

Regarding the runner on two and pace of play I'm not sure that helps that much long term. Extra inning games tend to be quite interesting, what is boring is the 7 to 1 blowout that still takes 2.5 hours. But if it is a tight game it taking longer is not the worst unless you have to get up early next day and game is going late.

I'll give #1 a thumbs down, and #2 a thumbs up. 1) DH.. Never liked it, never will. I seemed to always follow National League ball and like the strategy (double switches, pitchers needing to bunt, etc) 2) Adds some excitement, and effort to rid the long inning. Got to watch it in action Milb.A number of games where RipkenFanSon would tell us "he wasn't scheduled to play" (his games were West Coast which was a 9:30 PM EST start. We knew that wasn't always true as he would often then be that...

Overview of mlb draftees that have play at JUCO Level

Interesting - so about 20% of the drafted D1 players were at a juco at some point?

That is what it looks like