lwarring

Baseball should adopt the 3 ball walk rule. Baseball is full of multiples of 3 and fewer balls for a walk would encourage more strikes.

I get frustrated with Byron's unwillingness to recognize that making the ESPN highlights isn't worth being on the IL for 10 days or worse. The rest of his team needs him to stay healthy and that may mean making smarter choices about contact with the wall. Not sure if this is Rocco's job or Nelson's job to pull him aside and say "We love the effort, but we need you on the field. Turn it down from 11"

Good for the fans but bad for the Twins financially = not likely.

I agree. MLB pushes opening day earlier and earlier and WS starts later and later. I think this is the issue. Theres no reason to play baseball in March or November. Dbl headers or shorter schedule is the solution. they will never do it due to revenue loss, but it'd be the right thing to do. April 15 - Sept 15th ish with playoffs until Oct 15

I would think a 'mound visit' is anything that can't be done within the pitch clock time. If the catcher can talk to the pitcher when returning the ball and they can deliver the pitch before the timer hits bottom, no problem. If they have to call time for the visit, then it's a mound visit.

Glen is/was definitely a true MinneSOta Twin. Grew up here, played college ball here, to my knowledge wintered over here.. Maybe I missed something in his final game, but I couldn't figure out why, if Molitor's intent was to give Glen a farewell outing, he didn't send him out to start an inning so he could get a cheer on his way off the field, and why it wasn't on Sunday instead of Saturday. I kinda felt like it wasn't very obvious what was going on, if that was the intent.

#1 - I think this will only work if they eliminate the 'loop-hole' where stepping off resets the clock. If you don't pitch within X seconds of getting the ball back, it's called a ball, no matter what. Not the end of the world. #3 - The loophole here is 'injury'. What do you do if all the allotted relief pitchers were used up and the current one is injured (for real or pretend)? Also, any change to relief pitcher changes is still going to be limited to 2 minutes minimum 'cause the TV folks are going to want it to be a commercial break. #4 - two thumbs up. The decision process for a review now is a joke. #6 - I don't mind bunting, so I would have to disagree. I think baseball is at it's best when the ball is in play. To me, baseball that is all strikeouts and home runs isn't as enjoyable. The more time we can watch something going on, even if it's just a runner being thrown out, the better.

The Tigers seem like the poster child for why a GM wouldn't just throw money at the problem when trying to improve a club. It seems the owner decided to go 'all in' a few years ago and then continued to spend even when the formula didn't work.