Change baseball rules?

[yankthis]

If the baseball fairy (no, I don't mean Alex Rodriguez ) came down from the skies and tapped you on the head with a magic wand, and assigned you with the task of changing or adding three rules to major league baseball, what would you do?

 

Here's my 3:

 

1) Any pitch thrown behind a batter or between the legs of a batter would award first base to the batter, as this is no better or different than hitting him.

 

2) No more wussy intentional walks. Four consecutive balls thrown by a pitcher will award second base to the batter, even if there is already one or two strikes in the count. Four non-consecutive ball counts will result in the standard award of first base for the batter.

 

3) Extra innnings will be played in two-inning increments. If a game is tied in the ninth, play will resume through 11 innings. If tied in the 11th, play through 13, etc. etc.

[yeszir]

#3 is an interesting idea. Right now its like an NFL overtime where basically whoever scores wins. It would be nice to have it a little bit longer, like college football playoffs or soemthing. Bad comparison on my part, but cool idea.

 

I'd force pitchers to bat.

[Sizzlin22]

Id mane it mandatory to have 50 feet of foul room all around force people to get a legitimate hit.

[element1151]

That is fan unfriendly though. Behind the plate seats would have to go down in price.

[DOrtiz4prez]

Interesting. Let me think about this...

 

Rule 1: Something having to do with payrolls... I have no idea, but maybe equalling out teams payrolls or at least making A-Rod not be paid more than the whole D-Rays team.

 

Rule 2: Umps can review things like in football. Managers get maybe 2 a game and it CAN be used on balls and strikes.

 

Rule 3: Red Sox automaticaly win.