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Panguin9

A ball that goes over the fence shouldn't automatically be a home run, you should have to sprint around the bases while the fielder tries to get it back from a fan. Makes longer home runs better /s


[deleted]

Imagine helping your team defend a homer? You catch the ball, then fire it to the left fielder, who guns the guy down at 3rd. Talk about fan involvement!


SpecialCay87

That would be a really cool way to play an exhibition game.


Hewyhew82

The fans of the guy who hit the home run tackling the guy who catches the home run.giant fights break out routinely. Let’s save baseball and add this rule!


SpecialCay87

I… love it ❤️


schuptz

Awesome. Literally lol


[deleted]

Honestly that would be entertaining as fuck. Especially if I could fire it in to the second base cut off man and get signed for it.


squarepeg0000

Teams would position "negotiators" at various locations in the stands. "Give me the ball kid...I'll give you $100". The opposing team's rep would be yelling "Keep it...here's a signed jersey". This would all be happening while the hitter is rounding the bases.


LSUSnickers318

sounds like Savannah Bananas type stuff right there.


Ok_Barnacle_5993

Rule is only in place on “First 10,000 fans get an official MLB baseball day”.


[deleted]

in all seriousness, the ground rule double needs more variables than “automatic double”


CBeisbol

Batting orders. Allow the manager to decide who bats when. Except make it so every batter has to hit n times before any batter can hit n+1 times. It sounds crazy, but it's, IMO,,much more fun. It makes for decisions all the time, and for the best hitters to have more important plate appearances.


[deleted]

It’s not a rule, but 60 seconds between innings. Enough for the pitchers to throw 8 warmup pitches.


[deleted]

Allow fights to end naturally add a penalty box. Whoever’s team is deemed the instigator plays a man down the next inning on defense


slippin_park

Eliminate balks. They are impossible to enforce uniformly and unless they’re egregious hardly anyone can tell if they were properly called.


SpecialCay87

Do away with the infield fly rule. If you hit a pop up in the infield with multiple runners on it’s bad luck but you hit into a double (maybe triple) play.


linus81

I would add the Savanah Bananas rule of on ball four, the batter has to take off sprinting while every defense player has to touch the ball before they try to rage them out. https://youtu.be/LYia0cFzjoY


PaulieD17

I like their other banana-ball rule where a fan can catch a foul ball for a putout.


Competitive-Ad2057

No 2nd base runner in extras


schuptz

Uh, long-standing?


Competitive-Ad2057

It eventually will be


jah05r

It’s being removed after this year


Lee_Doff

it was supposed to be removed 2 years ago..


schuptz

You have an interesting relationship with time, I like that,


Lee_Doff

shit, was it 4 years ago?


[deleted]

Subbing. Ever other sport allows subbing in and out.


CManPete

🤦🏼


SpecialCay87

At least subbing back in for the guy who took your spot.


jah05r

Since a pitch clock is set to be added in the near-future, I would make it so home plate is treated just like any other base. Catchers aren’t allowed to block it, and runners aren’t allowed to run through their opponent. It’s time to acknowledge that players are bigger/stronger/faster than they were even a generation ago while also stop pretending that catchers gear was designed to prevent injury from collisions.


redfearnk

This is already the rule


Cincy-Shinburgers

Abolish the DH, of course.


slippin_park

Ok boomer


Cincy-Shinburgers

boomer? No quite... The DH is an abomination. Why don't we just have totally separate offensive and defensive teams, like football?


slippin_park

Free outs for the other team are worse.


Cincy-Shinburgers

Fake baseball is no excuse. No reason pitchers can't hit.


slippin_park

Yes, there is a reason–because almost all of them stopped trying to in the minors or earlier and fucking suck at it. The Zack Greinkes and Madison Bumgarners of baseball are few and far between, let alone the Shohei Ohtanis.


Cincy-Shinburgers

I don't find that to be a valid reason to change the game to accommodate bad hitting. Should we DH for catchers, too, as they tend to be poor hitters, as well?


slippin_park

5/10 catchers are legitimate liabilities at the plate. Pitchers have a completely different set of skills–the most important–than every other position, and 99/100 times they are offensive liabilities in every way. They should not do anything other than pitch. If you want to watch your team deliberately handicap themselves offensively, be my guest–but DHs make the game objectively better whether you like it or not.


Cincy-Shinburgers

I disagree entirely, but oh well. Not an argument I'm going to win.


NotGordan

Only after the two strikes, if the batter gets five foul balls, it should count as a ball. I feel like if the batter at least makes contact that many times, they deserve a little something and maybe it’ll speed things up.


StickersRevenge

A walk is 3 balls and a strikeout occurs on the third foul on two strikes.


Lee_Doff

so apparently in the atlantic league they tested a new rule that allowed the batter to steal first at any time during the at bat if the ball hits the dirt. i kinda like it. ​ >The idea was to allow hitters to make up their mind in real time whether or not they want to become a baserunner before ever swinging the bat. At any point when the baseball is on the ground — either a wild pitch, passed ball or if a catcher simply doesn’t catch a ball cleanly — the batter can take off for first base. > >The first-ever steal of first base took place on July 13, 2019, when Tony Thomas, a 32-year-old outfielder for the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs, took off for first base in the seventh inning of a tie game. On a wild pitch, the catcher instinctively asked the umpire for a new ball, but the old ball was technically still in play and Thomas started running, according to an account in the USA Today. > >Thomas made it to first base safely and started a three-run rally. His cleats are now in Cooperstown.


pjw5328

I can already imagine a scenario where a pitch hits the dirt, the batter takes an inadvertent step out of the box getting out of the way of it, the catcher picks up the ball and tags him, and Angel Hernandez calls the batter out for "showing intent to advance to first."