Wild Assed Rule Proposals

[Edgy MD]

Post your rule changes here. And while I want them to be never-going-to-happen wild-assed, bonus points if they aren't comic book scenarios, but could actually plausible part of the game that you'd like to see.



Everybody in the starting lineup having to pitch one inning? Yeah, I'd like to see that. It could even be like volleyball rules, having each of them all forced to rotate to a new position each inning. And because there are already the same number of players in the game at a time as there are regulation innings, it's almost like the game was always meant to be that way. it'd be the opposite of the far worse notion of the all-dh proposal.



Would I go and see that if some wildcat league was playing things that way? You betcha! Would any affiliated league ever seriously consider it? Not in a million years.

[kcmets]

Nine umpires, one for each position, each equipped with AI headgear.

[MFS62]

MLB should be able to demote umpires who do not score well (in player evaluations) to the minors.



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[Benjamin Grimm]

After scoring a run, if the ball is in play you have the option of trying to get safely to first base.

[Willets Point]

Any team can use a designated hitter by only on games that begin on odd-numbered days. On even-numbered days, pitchers hit. I'm about 90% serious about this.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Make all games 7 innings and not 9. Addresses the time worries, makes for a tighter project.



I'd experiment just for the hell of it, of moving the mound back by 10 feet, but also reducing whiffs to 1 strike. I'd confine this experiment to a minor league outpost in europe

[Edgy MD]

Willets Point wrote: Any team can use a designated hitter by only on games that begin on odd-numbered days. On even-numbered days, pitchers hit. I'm about 90% serious about this.

I think 90% serious is the right spirit of the thing.

[Fman99]

You want faster games? Give a base on balls after three balls. Give a strikeout after two strikes. Save pitchers arms that way, faster innings, less pitching changes.

[dinosaur jesus]

In every game, each team gets to choose one player from the opposing team to switch sides and play for them.



Players wear personalized uniforms with the emblem of their totem animal.



The first Sunday of every month is Opposites Day, when first base and first base are switched, righthanders have to throw with their left hands and vice versa, the innings run in reverse order, and balls are called strikes and strikes are called balls, except they're still actually regular balls and strikes.



The number of outs in an inning can be any number from one to five, at the defensive team's discretion, as long as they add up to twenty-seven.



On Armed Forces Day, teams wear uniforms based on soldiers' gear in battles from history--redcoats versus patriots, Saxons versus Normans, Romans versus Carthaginians, Cro Magnons versus Neanderthals, Ohioans versus Michiganders in the Toledo War of 1835.

[batmagadanleadoff]

On Jackie Robinson Day, all the major leaguers have to wear latex masks of Jackie Robinson. All the players on the winning teams from Jackie Robinson Day have to wear latex masks of Jackie Robinson for their next game, etc., etc., and for as long as they continue to win games uninterrupted by a loss.



Baseball games are scored like boxing matches, which are scored round by round. Each team gets one point for each inning won. Innings in which both teams score the same number of runs are considered ties. So a team that wins 8-4 under the current scoring rules could lose that game under the new rules if it scores all eight of its runs in one inning. But a team that outscores its opponent by ten runs wins automatically, even if, for example, it scored all 12 of its runs in one inning and its opponent scored one run in two separate innings. The 10 run lead is the equivalent of a knockout. So going into the ninth inning, if the visitors scored 8 runs in the 5th inning, and the home team scored one run in each of the first three innings, the home team is ahead three innings to one heading into the last or ninth inning. Therefore, the visiting team would have to score five runs in the ninth to take a 13-3 total run lead to have a chance at winning. Winning the 9th inning is no longer enough to win under these hypothetical facts. The ten run automatic knockout rule favors the visitor as it bats first.



Sexy girls, practically naked, come out before the start of each half inning with a huge sign indicating the inning number and top or bottom half that is about to get underway.

[Centerfield]

Topless girls means top of the inning. Bottomless girls for the bottom.



It can be something dads teach to their kids the first time they visit the ballpark. Good family fun.

[Ceetar]

you can run from home to first after scoring if you want. Same rules apply as at first, if you make the turn, you can be tagged out. no taking a few steps and then deciding "nah, i'll just go back to the dugout"



Totally confuses the fielding situations.



runner on third, hitter knocks a lazy, but deep, fly to LF. Typically you just have the fielder casually shag it and lob it back to second. NO excitement. A run scores and like no one's even energetic. NOW though, you gotta hurry or that runner is gonna get back to first.



Or maybe it's the opposing pitcher at third. Do you slow-play it, hoping to get the pitcher back on base? try to tire him out?



Runner on first and second. You field a single in the outfield..do you throw home? no he's probably already made it right? so third to try to keep the first runner from getting 2 bases? but that throw might let the first runner loop to first again if the batter can get to second. But maybe he makes the turn to first but the batter was just lazily playing it as a single! Rundown between first and home!

[Edgy MD]

I've mentally entertained many of those second-lap scenarios too.

[MFS62]

Every team has to schedule at least one single admission doubleheader per month. (Not that day - night stuff)



During non-school months, kids under 12 (when accompanied by an adult) are admitted for 50 cents to general admission seats. No exception because of opponent.



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[Ceetar]

If a team scores 10 runs a black hole swallows the runs, AND a win from the other team.



oh wait that's Blaseball

[dinosaur jesus]

One mitzvah ball per game, mixed in randomly with the other balls. If the batter hits it, it bursts into a bright shower of glitter, bestowing blessings on everyone the glitter lands on. If it lands in the catcher's mitt, he keeps it as a secret token of grace for him and his descendants.

[Fman99]

=Centerfield post_id=57956 time=1615808699 user_id=65]
Topless girls means top of the inning. Bottomless girls for the bottom.



It can be something dads teach to their kids the first time they visit the ballpark. Good family fun.

[whippoorwill]

Eliminate the bullpen

[whippoorwill]

=Centerfield post_id=57956 time=1615808699 user_id=65]
Topless girls means top of the inning. Bottomless girls for the bottom.



It can be something dads teach to their kids the first time they visit the ballpark. Good family fun.

[Edgy MD]

Here's one that's not so wild-assed and is, in fact, kind of intuitive: If you get hit with ball four, you get two bases, with runners advancing as forced.



Also, relatedly, if you get hit in your body armor (apart from your head), no base for you.

[Willets Point]

=whippoorwill post_id=58004 time=1615836256 user_id=79]
=Centerfield post_id=57956 time=1615808699 user_id=65]
Topless girls means top of the inning. Bottomless girls for the bottom.



It can be something dads teach to their kids the first time they visit the ballpark. Good family fun.

[Centerfield]

Edgy MD wrote: Here's one that's not so wild-assed and is, in fact, kind of intuitive: If you get hit with ball four, you get two bases, with runners advancing as forced. Also, relatedly, if you get hit in your body armor (apart from your head), no base for you.

Similar to this. If you get hit by a pitch within 6” of the strike zone, no base.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Adopt loaning players out like European soccer.



Say the Mets are ready to start the clock on Khalil Lee and want him to get major league ABs, but don't have a spot for him in the OF. Loan him to the Marlins for a fee!



The Cubs need salary relief for this year but aren't sure whether they want to permanently sever ties with Kris Bryant? Loan him to the Mets for the season! Players have to sign off on the loan, and clubs can negotiate how much of salary gets paid by which team. And Bryant can't play for the Mets against the Cubs.

[whippoorwill]

Willets Point wrote: =whippoorwill post_id=58004 time=1615836256 user_id=79] =Centerfield post_id=57956 time=1615808699 user_id=65] Topless girls means top of the inning. Bottomless girls for the bottom. It can be something dads teach to their kids the first time they visit the ballpark. Good family fun.

That's a hilarious idea but bottomless girls would stink the joint up

[Ceetar]

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[RealityChuck]

The pitcher can toss as many balls as he can conveniently throw. If he throws two and you swing, it's two strikes. If he does it again, you're out, with one strike left over for the next batter.



No fences in the outfield. If you hit a home run, you can circle the bases as many times as you want until they get the ball back or you get tired of it.



Oh, and if you hit the two baseballs, the runs count double.

[Edgy MD]

I think we need to vote on these.



I'm all about tearing down the fences. Something there is that doesn't love a wall. And at least one former Mets prospect agrees.



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[Edgy MD]

After every three innings of extra-inning play, your roster can expand by one. If you have a non-roster player who happens to be with the team at the time, great. Otherwise, maybe you're able to get a minor leaguer rushed in from out of town. Maybe you activate a coach. Maybe you have a retired player that's still in good shape glad-handing it in the hospitality suites, and you rush to sign him.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: After every three innings of extra-inning play, your roster can expand by one. If you have a non-roster player who happens to be with the team at the time, great. Otherwise, maybe you're able to get a minor leaguer rushed in from out of town. Maybe you activate a coach. Maybe you have a retired player that's still in good shape glad-handing it in the hospitality suites, and you rush to sign him.

I think it'd be more fun if each team lost a player for every extra inning, instead of gaining players, plus letting teams play short-handed in extras, as well. So if you get to the 12th or 13th innings, teams might have just two outfielders. Or just one, perhaps. Maybe the strategy would be that when there aren't any baserunners, the fielding team plays without a catcher.



I mean, whose gonna have spare players on hand to bring into a game? With your rule, might as well let teams pull new players from the stands. Maybe even a grandma, just for fun. Like when Keith Moon passed out in the middle of a Who concert and the band asked for drummers from the audience. "Is there a drummer in the house?"

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: After every three innings of extra-inning play, your roster can expand by one. If you have a non-roster player who happens to be with the team at the time, great. Otherwise, maybe you're able to get a minor leaguer rushed in from out of town. Maybe you activate a coach. Maybe you have a retired player that's still in good shape glad-handing it in the hospitality suites, and you rush to sign him.

Like the emergency goalies in the NHL - some guy drinking beer and enjoying the game in the stands, suddenly called upon to suit up and skate between the pipes. That would be fun. It happened here:

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Edited March 24, 2021 by Guest