[IBL] A rule for discussion

[Andrew Selder]

A similar thing happened to BOW in wk 3 BOW at WMS.

Game 1 was a blowout, so Mike brought in a long reliever (who was also a 
rated starter) to finish out the game. Game 2 was then rained out after 
4 innings, so that’s a starter burned. Game 3 (first game of double 
header) was similarly rained out after 2 innings. All this combined with 
a couple rain outs the previous week meant that BOW did not have a rated 
starter available for game 3.

I agree with Doug that mid week transactions in situations like this 
make perfect sense.

Andrew

On 1 May 2018, at 4:27, Doug Palmer wrote:

> IBL’ers,
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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!
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> 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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