[IBL] A rule for discussion

[Chris Hartjes]

I don’t remember why it was voted down. I voted in favour but other folks must’ve decided they didn’t like it or figured some people around here would try and abuse it.

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Chris

> On May 1, 2018, at 10:41 AM, Doug Palmer <aeronutty43 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Do you happen to remember what the argument against that rule was?  I’m trying to imagine the downside or the way to game the system by utilizing such a rule.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On May 1, 2018, at 10:39 AM, Chris Hartjes <chartjes at littlehart.net> wrote:
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>> We had a vote on a rule change like this a few years back and it got voted down.
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>> Chris
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>>> On May 1, 2018, at 7:27 AM, Doug Palmer <aeronutty43 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> IBL’ers,
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>>>  
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>>> Had a series of events in this weeks BAL/POR series that bordered on the ridiculous and turned what was an exciting, back and forth matchup into a farce.  And I would like to throw a proposal out there for consideration.
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>>> In G2 of the series, George (POR) had an inordinate amount of bad luck with injuries as he had 2 pitchers go down with injuries within the first 3 innings.  Not the “roll when he’s pulled” variety but rather, “roll now and check”.  That, in and of itself, is bad luck but we’ve all been there.  The game went back and forth and eventually went to extra innings.  During the course of the game, I used up relievers as did George.  Although the score was 4-4 heading into extras, there were a lot of men left of base and usage was becoming an issue.  Then the game went 17 innings.  8 pitchers used by POR and 5 used by BAL.  Most all of the pitchers used had eaten up their usage so that they would be unavailable the next game.  Now, for me, you could chalk it up to not having enough long men or maybe not carrying enough pitchers (I carry 11) but that’s not the case with George (he also carries 11 but had more long men it seemed).  He got screwed by the rapid fire injuries combined with the extra innings.  I got burned by losing a reliever in G1 due to a blowout (so I went into the rest of the series down 1 pitcher) and then burned by having 2 pitching slots occupied by starters that couldn’t pitch due to being tired.  But that’s not the craziness!  
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>>> The bull&^%$$ comes in G3.  Due to the 17 inning affair, I went into G3 with only 2 pitchers available.  George only had 4.  Would that EVER happen in a real game?  That a team would go into a game with only 2 or 4 pitchers capable of pitching?  Of course not.  Oh, and the kicker to all of this, with 2 outs in the top of the 9th, BAL tied it with a grand slam which sent the game to extras.  Yeah.  2 pitchers available and extra innings.  Better still, POR ran out of players.  An exhausted pitcher had to play left field.  And had the game gone another inning, POR would have had to forfeit as he had no bench players (to pitch) and would have been out of available pitchers.  I was 1 inning away from losing my reliever and having to use an outfielder as a pitcher.  But this was ridiculous.  It lost it’s cuteness and became outright frustrating that the rules are such.  And not only did it affect this series, now we’re both screwed (to varying degrees) for the next series.
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>>> We referred to the constitution and 3.5 outlines that you can replace injured players, but that’s only to create a legal lineup (luckily Sean was around last night and watched our game).  NOT to address losing your pitching staff.  What I would like to consider and would like to start a discussion about would be to add a rule into the constitution which would allow a team to make emergency call ups if, at the beginning of a game, they have 4 or fewer available pitchers (to reach a situation where they‘d have no more than 5).  It would not be mandatory, but it would give the owner the option to make emergency call ups.  The players deactivated would be subject to the 2 week rule, just like it is now, so an owner may not want to bring up a total of 5, but would have that option.  But it would prevent a situation like the one that happened last night.  It would ONLY affect pitchers as we already have a rule (3.5 in the constitution) that affects positional players.
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>>> What should have been a good and fun series with late inning heroics and come from behind victories instead left a sour taste in my mouth (I won’t speak for George here, but I didn’t get the sense that he was having fun there, losing players left and right).
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>>> Thoughts?  Decent idea?  Or is it one of those things that happens so infrequently, that we don’t need to bother?
>>> 
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