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Looks dumb to me. 

 

On Wednesday, Yahoo reported that the institution of Major League Baseball was considering a change to the extra-inning rules to speed play. Starting in the Rookie League — the lowest tier of baseball’s tiered talent system — the league might now begin each extra inning with a runner already on second base. The thinking is obvious: Put a runner in scoring position (as that is known), and maybe teams will score sooner. Shorter game.

 

Over the history of professional baseball in the United States (and Canada), there have been 16,668 extra-inning games, according to data from Baseball-Reference.com. Since 1920, around the start of the more-hitter-focused live-ball era, there have been 15,596 games. About half of those have been played since 1980.

The number of games that go into extra innings varies by year, but has generally hovered in the vicinity of 10 percent. Last year, there were relatively few extra inning games.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/02/10/changing-baseballs-extra-innings-format-is-stupid-and-we-can-prove-it/?utm_term=.403a06dd0629

 

 

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I don't care for the idea but...I understand that after a few innings fans would rather go home and that teams' ability to be competitive in the next few games can be impacted.

How about a simple compromise?  Give them three innings to complete the game and if they can't put the runner on second in the 13th.

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2 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

I don't care for the idea but...I understand that after a few innings fans would rather go home and that teams' ability to be competitive in the next few games can be impacted.

How about a simple compromise?  Give them three innings to complete the game and if they can't put the runner on second in the 13th.

Not bad.    Only about 17% of extra inning games reach the 13th inning (64 games last year in all of MLB, out of 370 total).

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