The thing that bugs me the most about the Manfred Runner is that it fucks with the batting order. For 150 years, we’ve had the notion that three guys are guaranteed to get to bat in every inning. Then Manfred plops an extra guy on 2nd, out of thin air, and if he makes an out then only 2 guys come to bat.
Any solution that would ensure that three guys make plate appearances is better than this.
I agree with that. It just seems so far out or place in baseball the way it is. Sad thing is, there was probably a whole damn committee of executives planning that change… and probably not a damn single one of em fans of baseball… Sad, really… I totally plucked that outta my ass, though. I have no real knowledge of how that decision was really made. But it seems fitting for the way shit’s gone the last few years…
