Problem is it gets guys like Jayson Stark fleshing it out like this • Each team gets to pick one at-bat — at any point in the game, but only once — to play its Golden AB card. So would it save that card for The Juan Soto Moment? Or would it play it in the second inning, with the bases loaded and a chance to blow up a game? Strategy alert! • Or there's this option: Each team gets one Golden AB per game — except only in the seventh inning or later. • Or there's the variation I'd vote for — where only a team that is trailing (or tied) in the ninth or later gets to use a Golden AB. I'm a fan of less is more, and two Golden ABs every game (one per team) might be overkill. • There's also this potential wrinkle: The Royals use their Golden AB to let Bobby Witt Jr. lead off the ninth. He makes an out. But who's batting second? Whaddaya know, it's Witt's turn in the lineup. So here he comes again. Yes, that could be a thing. So what variation will actually end up happening (if any of them do)? We have many golden miles to travel before we can answer that. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5961016/2024/12/02/golden-at-bat-rule-mlb?source=user-shared-articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5961016/2024/12/02/golden-at-bat-rule-mlb?source=user-shared-article