No one can say that Rob Manfred did not provide the details of the bad ideas he provides.
The man who rubs his hands together while promising a lockout after the expiration of the collective agreement also declared that he wanted to understand the places of the two following expansion teams when his contract expired in 2029.
Forget, for a moment, that Manfred would be taken from any logic lessons in the first year in your local university. How can the leader of a group of billionaires who cry poverty also want to extend his business? It makes no sense!
Anyway, can we not have a bad idea without the other? And if so, can we make it the lockout, so that we do not have to see how thinly become thin for pitch in a league of 32 teams?
Anyone who has followed baseball since the time when there were only 26 teams realized that adding marlins, rocks, rays (devil) and diamonds in the 1990s extended the pool of qualified league launchers – a species in the process of disappearance even in pre -expansion – dangerously thin.
But the superficiality of the swimming pool was more visible than ever on Friday evening, when each team should have had something that looks like a supply and refreshing staff after the four -day stars break.
Instead, we have received reminders from one ocean to the other from wear among entries and listers.
Yankees and angels each used an opener. The start of the Sean Manaea dishes granted a round in four rounds – and was followed by the men of Vadrouille Alex Carrillo and Brandon Waddell, who covered the last 15 withdrawals of what turned out to be a defeat of 8 to 4. The leaving the Giants Justin Verlander lasted 2 2/3 sleeves, which only marked the ninth time that 542 career departures.
There were appropriate explanations for each abbreviated start and an approximate emergency exit. The recruit of the Yankees, Cam Schlittler, who was to make his second beginning of a career on Friday, fell with a painful arm during the star break. The dishes are cautious with Manaea, who missed the first three and a half months with oblique injuries and elbows, and had to save their enclosure from the readers because most of the others in their rotation have workload problems. Verlander is 42 years old and shows the effects of more than 3,800 professional rounds. The angels are the angels.
But the warning signs concerning the depth of pitching are always omnipresent, even if you wanted to consider the above -mentioned examples. Overall, the teams used an average of 4.3 launchers per game on Friday evening. Ten teams used at least five launchers.
These trends, of course, are nothing new. The average departure, until Friday, was 5.23 innings, against 5.81 innings 10 years ago and 6.2 rounds in 1992, the last season before the addition of the Marlins and the Rockies.
Seven hundred and sixty launchers appeared in at least one match until Friday – already the seventh higher in a single season of all time, behind the last six non -pandemic seasons. Only 441 launchers appeared in The Bigs in 1992 – a huge 42% less than this year’s figure.
What happens if two other teams must find several dozen additional launchers to cover the sleeves in the early 2030s? The only way in which the expansion at 32 teams could work would be to reduce matches to seven -rounds.
Oh my God, let’s not give Manfred another bad idea.
