Well, yeah, that's a good point.
In case people have forgotten:
Starting in the 2023 Major League Baseball season, position players are restricted to pitch only in situations where their team is leading by 10 or more runs in the 9th inning, their team is losing by 8 or more runs at any time, or the game is in extra innings.
If we can bring back everyone for the playoffs, I’d option everyone with options. I bet Harper has options!
Still have that pitcher's limit - and surprisingly few players with options.
Including Harper. Not because he ever ran out of them but because of his service time.
I was joking about Harper. But Stott? Marsh? Rojas, of course. The more Clemenses, Halls, and Wilsons you play, the less you have to worry about a key player getting hurt.
Though if the 10-day recall rule did not apply at the end of the season they could use guys like Kerkering and Sanchez on Saturday and option them out for Nelson and somebody else on Sunday. The rules online are kind of cloudy on this because postseason eligibility has nothing to do with optional assignment. Player just needs to be on the 40 or an injury waiver like Kerkering who also needs to be in the organization.
I do wonder if the Phillies petition the league to allow this. FWIW players do get major league pay and service time when they are optioned out in September anyway, so this would cost a little extra money.
I did find this exception language too on the MLB site:
But in September, another exception emerges. If a player is optioned to a Minor League club whose season -- including any playoffs -- ends prior to the conclusion of that 10-day period, the player can be recalled at that point, with approval from the Commissioner's Office.
I'm sure they will do it if they can then. I'm less worried about the position players.
Otherwise: pitchers, throw strikes. Batters, swing.
The whole thing is further complicated by the fact that the Mets may still have to play a meaningful inning on Monday. And that they have no reason to want to win games.
I used it when I came to a game a few weeks ago. I have no problem with it. Not sure that should be the only option. I trust that they don’t keep my info, but I am a trusting person in general.
Oh my sweet summer child.
If some sort of biometric recognition becomes the only way to get in, I’ll be watching from my couch from then on.
For all of society you mean.
Which, it kind of already is. Unless you don't have a phone. But that doesn't mean it's good.
And it's pretty much a matter of record that most companies fail (or lie) about their safeguards and what they do with the data. I believe many of us have $ coming from both MLB and Facebook from class action suits for those very reasons already.
It’s looking like the Marlins will slide past the Dbacks for the 5 seed. The Marlins have two games remaining against the Pirates and a game suspended in the 9th inning against the Mets where they are up a run. The Marlins have the tiebreaker over the Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks have two games against the Astors. Both teams magic number to clinch is at 1 I believe.
Marlins are probably the last team I want to face. They match up well against us. Have a ton of good lefties in the pen.
I didn’t realize Houston hadn’t clinched a playoff spot yet. Someone is going to clinch a playoff spot tonight in Phoenix, be it the Astros or Diamondbacks.
The DBacks aren't a gimme either, even if their rotation's out of whack. And Marlins don't have Alcantara, and have to play on Monday maybe (even if it's not far away).
Don't think we can really be sure they'll take the higher seed either. But seems like they and Arizona are all but in. (Who knows though! Astros are in a fight for their lives and can still win the division, and you never know what the Pirates might do.)
If nothing else we want that game in Queens to be played and want both teams to keep having to use their pitchers. So go Astros, go Pirates.
Is that true? The Astros are a game ahead of Seattle, but there are two games left, and I think Seattle holds the tiebreaker.
Seattle does hold the tiebreaker with the Astros and yet, the Astros do clinch a playoff spot with one win, because the Mariners and the Rangers are playing each other (and they hold the tiebreaker with the Rangers. They also get a spot in the event of any four or three-way ties - with the Mariners winning the West and the Rangers out).
If the Astros win on either Saturday or Sunday, they're in. If they lose both games, but the Mariners also lose both of their remaining games, then the Astros still make it. If the Astros lose both and the Mariners win one of their last two games, then the Astros are out.
__The Astros are still in the hunt for the AL West title -- which would happen if they win both of their remaining games and the Rangers and Mariners split their final two games, because Houston holds the head-to-head tiebreaker edge over Texas -- and send Justin Verlander to the mound Saturday.
A whole lot can still happen in the NL too. If there is a four or three-way tie (for one spot) Marlins would be #5 and Reds 6, D-Backs and Cubs out.
No team will be a gimme. The Phils proved that last year with their success. all teams will be good. If you want to get there, you have to earn it. hopefully the Phils experience last year will help. but who knows. they didn't have any experience last year and almost ran the table. I'm see Bohm as the MVP.
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