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Big changes coming to baseball? It was the talk of the baseball world Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal got the ball rolling with a big story on proposed rule changes from both the league and the players union, followed up by even more details about those proposals from the New York Post's Joel Sherman and ESPN's Jeff Passan.
All the reads are good, interesting ones, but here are some of the big points. Get ready, baseball purists, you're probably not going to like a lot of these.
The proposals include:
- The designated hitter coming to the National League.
- A rule that every pitcher to enter a game, starter and reliever, must face at least three batters.
- An expansion of active rosters from 25 to 26 with a maximum of 12 pitchers.
- A reduction in expanded September rosters from 40 to 28.
- An extension of the disabled-list stay from 10 games to 15 games.
- One and only trade deadline, which would come before the All-Star break.
- A reduction in mound visits.
- A 20-second pitch clock.
- A penalty for teams that lose at least 90 games in consecutive seasons, one that would drastically reduce their draft standing and strip away international signing money.
- A full year of service time to rookies who under current rules would not earn one but would if they finish in the top three in the voting for certain awards or lead the league in WAR.
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Big changes coming to baseball? It was the talk of the baseball world Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal got the ball rolling with a big story on proposed rule changes from both the league and the players union, followed up by even more details about those proposals from the New York Post's Joel Sherman and ESPN's Jeff Passan.
All the reads are good, interesting ones, but here are some of the big points. Get ready, baseball purists, you're probably not going to like a lot of these.
The proposals include:
- The designated hitter coming to the National League.
- A rule that every pitcher to enter a game, starter and reliever, must face at least three batters.
- An expansion of active rosters from 25 to 26 with a maximum of 12 pitchers.
- A reduction in expanded September rosters from 40 to 28.
- An extension of the disabled-list stay from 10 games to 15 games.
- One and only trade deadline, which would come before the All-Star break.
- A reduction in mound visits.
- A 20-second pitch clock.
- A penalty for teams that lose at least 90 games in consecutive seasons, one that would drastically reduce their draft standing and strip away international signing money.
- A full year of service time to rookies who under current rules would not earn one but would if they finish in the top three in the voting for certain awards or lead the league in WAR.
