Quote Originally Posted by burnmotherfucker! View Post
MLB just made a lot of rule changes for next year.

I'm all for getting rid of shifts, that's just never felt like pure baseball to me. But I'm not sold on this pitch clock thing. I guess it's fine for the meaningless regular season but playoff baseball needs the tension that can come from a pitcher controlling the pace.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-2023-ru...r-bases-shifts
Shifts have been around forever. They shifted on Ted Williams and he still hit .406 in 1941. Getting rid of them is dumb. The pitch clock is dumb too, along with the limits on pickoff attempts and stepoffs that go along with it.