Rob Manfred is keeping baseball alive. 6 inning minimum for pitchers is on the table
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mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
No you wouldn’t
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
most of us nba fans don’t understand basketball to the level we think we do, so we just yell at the sky.
One thing I would do is extend thw three point line and remove corner threes. People will still shoot threes because 3>2, but the corner three is the shorter than the other areas.
IsThatBrothaMouzone?
Veteran
It does make you wonder how guys like Nolan Ryan, Bob Gibson etc., could pitch as much as they did with great command/velocity yet guys today can't last more than 5 innings.
My guess is.......sport specializing too early. Instead of playing basketball, soccer, football AND baseball.....a lot of these guys show talent early and focus 100% on a single sport. Their arms are hanging on a thread by the time they reach the Majors. Human physiology didn't change in 60 years.
IsThatBrothaMouzone?
Veteran
Cap isn't needed but a floor is for sure.
Owners either pay above the floor or they pay HEAVY fines that make them wish they spent more on players.
Pretty sure the NFL instituted a floor. I agree the cap isn't needed right now because it's not like the Yankees and Dodgers are winning every year. Hell you had Arizona and Texas in the W/S last year. Houston has been on a run. Probably more parity in baseball than we've seen in awhile.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
25 ft 9 inches ? Idk
Erratic415
Superstar
I would guess that too. Doctors have said that they see way more TJ surgeries in teenage baseball players than before.
I also think guys like Gibson and Ryan may have been exceptions, and there’s a survivorship bias. People just remember the successful ones who played a long time and not the many whose arms and shoulders couldn’t handle the stress of the position.
The Long Sad History of Injured Pitchers
There seems to be an impression out there that pitchers get hurt today more than they ever did before.
www.nbcsports.com
Ryan was a total freak of nature. He was also the worst at walking people for the first half of his career, so he was throwing an ungodly amount of pitches. Somehow his arm held up and he still played until he was 46.
Mantis Toboggan M.D.
I’m here for the scraps
*looks at the state of ownership in Baltimore, Miami, Oakland/sacramento, Denver, Washington DC, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Chicago, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Minneapolis, & Detroit to name a few cities where a decent commissioner would be leaning on these owners to get it together or sell the team*
it because you never heard of the guys who got hurt back then, they simply werent remembered because once they got hurt their careers were over. there was 1000s of koufaxs
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
Yea
A few cities are dead cuz of ownership and Boston and Milwaukee got shytty owners.
Mantis Toboggan M.D.
I’m here for the scraps
Here too. I don’t get why the stadium is still packed. The last decade of Yankee baseball is defined by them passing on every star who becomes available besides Gerrit Cole (after passing on him once cost them the pennant in 2019) and Juan Soto (after a season where nobody showed up to games down the stretch since the entire lineup besides Torres & Judge couldn’t hit their own weight which had them in last place). Then the guy they pass on immediately pays off big for his new team while the cheaper options that Hal allows Cashman to spend more money on backfire catastrophically right away and stay on the books for years (DJ Lemahieu, Aaron Hicks, Josh Donaldson, Marcus Stroman, Zack Britton, Ryan McMahon).
It’s been hard to watch but the last 15 years have proven that Hal Steinbrenner is genuinely as bad an owner as any of those guys. He hasn’t even made a single public appearance since March (his only appearance of the year) when he announced the ban on facial hair was being amended. That the Yankees and Red Sox both have such awful ownership is a horrible thing for the sport. He’s covered the stadium and uniform in ads, put the games on 5-6 different streaming services (Amazon alone gets nearly 14% of their schedule every year), he won’t fire Cashman despite no GM getting less per dollar than he does while he can’t develop his own guys either, and then when he does show up he always whines about wanting to reduce the payroll. He’s voted to reduce the luxury tax threshold by I think 15% and he’s publicly lobbied for a hard salary cap too. For the owner of the Yankees of all teams to act like that is horrific. He also prioritized a contract extension for Brian Cashman ahead of one for Judge in the winter of 2022 after he lowballed Judge in the spring. Then he did it again so Judge had to call Hal directly to negotiate a new contract. Any other player and Hal would’ve lost the biggest name in baseball on top of all the other bad stuff.
An actual commissioner would’ve forced these types out a long time ago.
