[IBL] Rules Proposal...

[George Blas]

Jed and I faced a similar extra inning game the week before.

This is probably the type of rule/ballot proposal that should be up for vote every year..


> On Apr 23, 2022, at 10:22 PM, Sean Sweda <sweda at ibl.org> wrote:
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> On Apr 23, 2022, at 10:05 PM, Andrew Selder via Members <members at lists.ibl.org> wrote:
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>> I’d like to propose emergency transactions be allowed after extra inning games.
>> 
>> Jed and I played a 15 inning game in game 2, which left me exactly one available reliever in gm 3. In real life, this would never be allowed to happen. Relievers would be optioned and other recalled from AAA.
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>> The relievers optioned would be ineligible for the next two weeks.
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>> Andrew
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> FYI -- I wrote a rule change proposal to allow this in 2016 but it was voted down.
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> 2016-01) Allow teams to make in-series pitcher transactions due to extra innings or double-headers
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> add section 4.1.2:
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> 4.1.2  Special Pitcher Activations
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> A team may replace pitcher(s) on the active roster with pitcher(s) on the
> inactive roster after any game that extends beyond the 9th inning, after the
> completion of a suspended game played on the same day as another game, or
> anytime during a series with a double-header (including between DH games). Any
> pitcher activated in this fashion must have been eligible to be activated for
> the current week (as per 3.2.2).
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> Teams may not sign free agents in this situation, only players on the
> inactive roster at the start of the series are eligible replacements.
> Special transactions should be reported with the GRS for the series.
> Players deactivated in this manner must remain inactive for the next two
> weeks, just as if they were deactivated after the conclusion of the series.
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