The New Summer Season

[G-Fafif]

60 games.

40 vs division.

20 vs counterpart other league division.



Six Subway Series.

[kcmets]

It's 'offical!'

[Benjamin Grimm]

=G-Fafif post_id=39213 time=1592962399 user_id=55]
60 games.

40 vs division.

20 vs counterpart other league division.



Six Subway Series.

[ashie62]

I'd be ok with Jed Lowrie opting out



Happy to see baseball back!



It is interesting to see that they may have a group of unsigned players in Nashville at the ready to fill in if needed



As Pete Alonso tweeted yesterday, LFGM!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Jeff Passan at ESPN reports that the DH will be universal and the stupid runner-on-second-base rule will be in effect. (I'd rather they just allowed for a game to end in a tie after 10 or 12 innings.)



Trade deadline will be August 31. Roster size will be 30 for two weeks, then 28 for the next two weeks, then 26 the rest of the way.



Taxi squad can have up to 60 players. 60-day injured list reduced to 45 days. Special COVID-19 list with no minimum or maximum.

[kcmets]

I can manage to deal with the DH (unhappily) but I hope that runner on second thing

sees little action. Who goes to second? Do they announce a designated runner prior to

the game? Is it last batter who made an out? What about my scorecard entry?

[Ceetar]

it's the preceding person in the batting order, so yeah whoever made the last out or his replacement.



It counts as 'reaching on an error' but there is no error assessed to anyone.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The runner is whoever is in the lineup position prior to that of the batter leading off the inning.



I read that it's scored as an error (on whom though?) so that if the runner scores it's an unearned run.



I'm going to have to modify the UMDB scorecard code to deal with this monstrosity.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I'd sooner move to 7 inning regulation games than institute the stupid extra innings rule, or do both, bit institute the stupid second base rule only after 9 real innings

[Fman99]

At least the DH will go away for 2021 (though I'm sure it'll be a big sticking point for the next CBA). I can handle 60 DH games. It'll give more ABs to Dom Smith, I'd think.

[kcmets]

=Ceetar post_id=39238 time=1593007994 user_id=102]It counts as 'reaching on an error' but there is no error assessed to anyone.

[Frayed Knot]

Doug Glanville has decreed that the runner on 2nd should be scored as the 'Magic Double'

When asked (he was on ESPN's morning show) how he felt about the rule he replied, "Nauseous"

[bmfc1]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The runner is whoever is in the lineup position prior to that of the batter leading off the inning.

Sigh. If they were going to do this then I wish that they would have given us one or two "normal" extra innings.



You might see this: two outs in the 9th, tie-game, no one on, Luis (the Mets manager, it's been a while) sends up Johneshwy Fargas to bat for Wilson Ramos. If Ramos makes the 3d out you don't want him planted on 2d in the 10th so you PH with the fastest player in the organization. If Fargas gets on, fine (of course). If not, you put him in the OF, Nido at C, hope the game is still tied, and then you have Fargas on 2B to start the 10th.

[Ceetar]

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If Ramos makes the 3d out you don't want him planted on 2d

[Benjamin Grimm]

CBS Sports wrote: The league has reserved the right to play wherever is needed. That is, if there's a big breakout somewhere and they need to move the venue, the league will do so. Anything and everything is on the table to get the job done. We could end up seeing a neutral-site World Series.

There are about a thousand reasons this is going to be an interesting season. I'm simultaneously glad it's happening and hoping it happens.

[Lefty Specialist]

Only 60 games and you have to play the Blue Jays and Rays 8 times? Ridiculous.

[batmagadanleadoff]

We should take a poll. How likely is it that the 2020 season will be played to a conclusion without interruption? ... that in the end, the 2020 season will have to be canceled because of the pandemic? ... that the 2020 season will be completed, but with pandemic-related interruptions or stoppages.

Edited June 24, 2020 by Guest

[batmagadanleadoff]

60 games. That's no more than 12 or 13 starting pitcher starts. deGrom wasn't even in the running for the last two Cys after his first 12 or 13 starts.

[batmagadanleadoff]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=39262 time=1593024831 user_id=68]
60 games. That's no more than 12 or 13 starting pitcher starts. deGrom wasn't even in the running for the last two Cys after his first 12 or 13 starts.

Edited June 24, 2020 by Guest

[kcmets]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=39261 time=1593024732 user_id=68]We should take a poll. How likely is it that the 2020 season will be played to a conclusion without interruption?

[Lefty Specialist]

=Fman99 post_id=39243 time=1593008656 user_id=86]
At least the DH will go away for 2021 (though I'm sure it'll be a big sticking point for the next CBA). I can handle 60 DH games. It'll give more ABs to Dom Smith, I'd think.

[Ceetar]

i'm told by all the couch-experts that Cespedes is basically less likely to be able to hit again than David Wright.



You gotta consider Alonso there though.



4-man rotations could make a lot of sense for a short workload, but I think ramping up to that given a quick start makes it harder too.



I think baseball might just roll with infections. You know, like the rest of the country.

[batmagadanleadoff]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=39261 time=1593024732 user_id=68]
We should take a poll. How likely is it that the 2020 season will be played to a conclusion without interruption? ... that in the end, the 2020 season will have to be canceled because of the pandemic? ... that the 2020 season will be completed, but with pandemic-related interruptions or stoppages.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The runner-on-second-base thing is known, I've just learned, as the "international tiebreaker".

[Benjamin Grimm]

Do we know when the schedule is going to be released? I'm sure we all want to start making plans for the tickets we won't be able to buy for the games we won't be able to attend.



I also need to look in to how the MLB Extra Innings thing is going to work. Normally I get billed in April for the full season. I guess I'll get billed in July for a pro-rated portion of the season? They should just make it free for anyone who had already signed up before the season was postponed, but I don't imagine they'll do that.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The runner-on-second-base thing is known, I've just learned, as the "international tiebreaker".

It's going to be a strange and nutty season, as The Athletic notes. And in so noting, reminds us that under the exta-inning, runner on second rule, a team could pitch a perfect game and lose.



Because it hsappened.

Don't believe me? Those Tampa Tarpons, of the Florida State League, could tell you all about it. Those Tarpons took a perfect game into extra innings back in 2018. Alas, those extra innings began with a runner on second. What happened after that kind of messes up the story, since they then committed an error, and the winning run later scored on a fielder's choice/groundout. But that game is a reminder that something like this totally could happen: Nine perfect innings … 10th inning starts with a man on second … wild pitch … sacrifice fly … Voila! Team allowing no hits, walks, errors or HBPs still loses. There are several variations on this theme — but all 100 percent plausible.

Read about all the possible strange and nutty scenarios lurking in what will surely be a strange and nutty 2020 baseball season.



https://theathletic.com/1891802/2020/06/25/stark-welcome-to-the-strangest-season-ever/https://theathletic.com/1891802/2020/06/25/stark-welcome-to-the-strangest-season-ever/

[Lefty Specialist]

Every game is going to be super-important; basically 2.7 times as important. No Terry Collins 'Sunday lineups' this season.



THIS would be the year to rip off an 11-game win streak.

[Edgy MD]

It would be the equivalent of a 29.7-game winning streak.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Schedule due to be released within the next two weeks.

[ashie62]

Sprint could and should be fun



Lotsa bullpen opener games coming



Truly would like to find out what Cespedes is abile to do, like 15 homers in 55 games pleez