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7) I'm opposed to LF/RF crossover because it's a slippery slope and where do we draw the line? What about CF getting LF/RF starts? What about 1B/3B interchangeability? What about SS getting 2B/3B starts? What about my guy who played 2B last year but not this year; surely he still can. Manager's discretion on where to field them, right?<div><br></div><div>Ultimately the changing landscape of player positions is just part of the puzzle and I would not change it.</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(132, 115, 255); padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0px;">On Tuesday, August 27, 2024, 12:02, Russell Peltz via Members <members@lists.ibl.org> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv4463164475"><div dir="ltr">My thoughts on some of the ballot items:<br><br>01) I'm in favor of having the option to allow a team a waiver priority exemption if results <br>will be late due to extraordinary factors out of the team's control. Currently there is no<br>mechanism for the Commissioner to approve games being played late, even when it would benefit<br>the league for games to be played in the proper order with correct usage and injury information.<br><br>02) In my experience, players with a large number of injury days get penalized excessively when<br>they get injured multiple times. This would partially mitigate that while not removing all of <br>the risk of playing them.<br><br>03) One of the biggest unrealistic aspects of our game, and an exploit, is letting a pitcher<br>pitch almost an entire game while fatigued to get him usage. We've had pitchers throw complete<br>games while giving up 35 runs (moment of silence for Sun-Woo Kim, 2002). That was bad enough<br>back then, but in today's MLB most pitchers are not even allowed to go over 100 pitches.<br>I think some sort of hard limit is needed to prevent this unrealistic abuse, and allowing <br>pitchers to go through the lineup one time while fatigued would be a good limit while still <br>allowing some flexibility for a guy who gets fatigued early. Even if he gave up 6 earned runs<br>in the first nine batters, he would still be allowed to go through the lineup a second time if<br>you want. In real life he would probably be yanked immediately.<br><br>04) I've always thought having limits +/- 25% would make more sense than 75% and 133%.<br>Incidentally in the case of full time starting pitchers, +33% is excessive and this would<br>mitigate it somewhat.<br><br>05) I'm in favor. Removing a starter after he goes through the lineup twice is pretty<br>normal manager behavior these days, so we should be able to do that without using up<br>a pitcher start.<br><br>07) I'm leaning toward yes on this one. There isn't much difference between playing LF and<br>RF. I can't imagine a team with two left fielders being forced to trade one because they<br>need a right fielder. They would just move one of the guys. I do think our fielding rating<br>system should take into account where the guy actually played, though. For example, if <br>someone played full time in LF and very little in RF, their RF range rating should be a <br>grade or two lower.<br><br>08) Yes yes yes. Concurrent injuries should not be added together. A player with more than<br>one injury does not have to wait for one to heal before the other one starts to heal.<br><br>09) I'm leaning no on this one. Draft tiers were designed to rank how often teams have been<br>in contention, and winning a Wild Card spot definitely separates a team from those that have<br>not. Wild Card teams are often stronger than at least one division winner. I might support<br>a similar rule if it counted Wild Card losers as 1/2 of a playoff spot, or if we had a<br>more granular point system giving more points for the further into the playoffs a team gets.<br><br>Thanks for reading this far.<br><br><div>-Rusty</div><div><br></div></div>
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