I think it was. At least I hope it was. Either way, it sucks.
MLB Pseudo-Season 2020: Roger, Dodgers
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This story is from February and says the rule goes into effect March 12 for spring training. Can't be tied to the COVID BS.
Correct. It was implemented in the minor leagues in 2019 as a "test," which is MLB's way of saying, "We're forcing this down your throat."
I genuinely hate that MLB's commissioner thinks the game is boring.
Edit: Three-BATTER rule.
Maybe a three pitcher rule would be more interesting.
Fixed it.
We were speaking of unwritten rules earlier, so my question, what ever happened to the one where everyone on the bench "ignores" the first MLB home-run by a player? 
what ever happened to the one where everyone on the bench "ignores" the first MLB home-run by a player?
In the grand scheme of things, that one's harmless. Just good-natured rookie hazing.
Like no one speaks to a pitcher who's throwing a no-hitter - more a superstition than anything else. Baseball players are a pretty superstitious bunch.
I know, but it seems that here in these days of a 60 game season it has been tossed w/o forethought and further ignoring social distancing. I saw it happen in the Reds-Cards game. The Cardinal rookie got smothered by everyone when he came back to the bench.
It just appeared stupid and reminded me of....
In today's era of launch angle and exit velocity, the homerun has become the only acceptable outcome for hitters. It's a huge part of the reason that dramatic defensive shifts work. Hitters are not willing to accept an RBI single to the opposite field in lieu of swinging for the fences and weakly grounding out to the pull side. As one of the few hitters to see it in his era, Ted Williams was stubborn about hitting against the shift, but he was a lifetime .340 hitter.and could get away with it. He simply blasted it over or through the shift.
Chicks love the long ball.
Zackly - so they should take the RBI single to the opposite field. That was my point with the Splendid Splinter.Not everyone is Ted Williams.
Not everyone has that skill or patience, which is why Ted Williams is in the Hall of Fame and a career .340 hitter.
Not everyone should swing from the heels every time up either. But that doesn't stop them.
If they're told to swing from their heels, that is what they'll do. Just a phase the game is going through.
Exactly who is going to tell them to swing from the heels and why doesn't whoever it is tell them to take the easy run by hitting it to the opposite field?
Maybe because it isn't that easy to just hit to the opposite field? Or else everybody would be doing it, and the shift would've already been rendered useless as a tactic.
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