Those opposed to MLB’s extra-innings experiment the last three years will need to make a long-term adjustment.
The league’s Joint Competition Committee met and determined that it’ll keep the rule — where a runner starts at second for each additional inning, starting in the 10th — for 2023 “and beyond,”He reported that teams and pitchers “seem to approve” of what became the overarching theme of extra-inning games the last three years.
“Pitchers don’t mind less wear and tear on their arms,” Rogers reported, “and front-office personnel hate the havoc that long, extra-inning affairs create with their rosters in the days following those games.”in effect in July 2020, and then-manager Luis Rojas said afterward that “we’ll keep getting used to it as we move forward.” There were fewer games where additional innings kept stringing together. Strategy in those situations changed for managers, too.
ESPN also reported that the Joint Competition Committee voted unanimously to tweak the rule that allows position players to pitch in games. According to Rogers, teams that trail by eight or more runs can use a position player, while teams leading a game must be up by 10 or more runs in order to make that type of switch.Getty Images
Rogers cited concerns from players as one of the reasons for that switch, as hitting statistics “were beginning to be dramatically affected by so many position players pitching.” Position players pitched on 132 occasions last season per the Elias Sports Bureau, Rogers reported.
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