SEC expected to adopt pickoff limitations & minimum # of batters a pitcher must face

I’m cool with the 3 batter minimum. It’s even more strategy. Plus, no one is enjoying the 4+ hour games that most reach now.

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Plus, no one is enjoying the 4+ hour games that most reach now.

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That’s not the norm at all in college baseball, especially in conference games.

Can’t find data from this year but the year the pitch clock was added, the average length of SEC games was 2 hours 49 minutes. That was down 21 minutes from the previous year

What takes the most time isn’t the pitching changes. It’s the reviews taking so long. They’ve already capped mound visits, added pitch clocks, and pitching changes are limited to 90 seconds from the time the coach starts walking to the mound. They also made run rules mandatory in SEC games.

The three batter minimum for pitchers is dumb at the college level. And limiting pickoff attempts is just inviting easy stolen bases, which results in more runs, and longer innings

fricking good.

The cock sucking baseball “traditionalists” can get fricked if they don’t like this. Endlessly trying to pick off someone isn’t strategy and changing pitchers after every batter isn’t strategy either. It’s bitch made shite that’s been in the game for too long.
Getting rid of this trash will make the games go by faster and improve fan experience exponentially.

They need to get rid of the shift next

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fricking good.

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nah dude

Needless rules such as the 2 pickoff rule will create a whole level of dumbassery that even Ole Miss fans wont even be able to understand.

After two pickoff attempts even Bartolo fricking Colon will be able to steal bases with ease. Baseball isn't meant to be played in a drive through so stop trying to speed it up in hopes some skinny jeans wearing, blue haired vape pen Kamala voter will start paying attention.

You fricking fig

I hate the idea of both of these rules. Baseball is a supposed to be a chess match game.

And eliminate the shift or use mlb rule
Players must be on infield

Why do we have to keep making new rules?

Endlessly trying to pick off a guy seems to usually result in a stolen base.

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A big reason why softball flows so much better and the games are a lot shorter. No throws at all to 1st but also 7 innings vs 9

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Taking the pickoff move away would be dumb as hell. Baseball is not softball. The ball is put into play a lot more in baseball than softball. Softball is awfully a lot of strikeouts, walks, HRs, and just standing around on base.

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Can’t find data from this year but the year the pitch clock was added, the average length of SEC games was 2 hours 49 minutes. That was down 21 minutes from the previous year

What takes the most time isn’t the pitching changes. It’s the reviews taking so long. They’ve already capped mound visits, added pitch clocks, and pitching changes are limited to 90 seconds from the time the coach starts walking to the mound. They also made run rules mandatory in SEC games.

The three batter minimum for pitchers is dumb at the college level. And limiting pickoff attempts is just inviting easy stolen bases, which results in more runs, and longer innings

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I would be interested in seeing the data from this year. My personal experience tells me that while the pitch clock worked to bring game times down initially, they have been creeping back up. As I pointed out in my prior response, pick off moves are now being used as a work around to circumvent the pitch clock, and the trend just keeps getting worse. The limit will stop that.

Pitching changes take up a huge amount of time. No one comes to the park to see the coach make pitching changes.

While replay takes up time, it has all but eliminated the long arse, deranged arguments that used to be common, so I think that just about is a wash.