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Originally Posted by daves
Need more offense so here are the new rules:
1. No shifts so pull hitters have a better chance
2. Bigger bases to increase safe runners.
3. Time clock between pitches to hurry up pitching decisions
Other rules to come:
4. Decrease strike zone?
5. Reduce glove size limit from 14 to 10 or 9?
6. Pitchers are not allowed to throw sinkers. curve balls or anything of the like.
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Evidence shows that the shift has a very small impact. Overall it slightly suppresses offense so there is no reason for teams to stop doing it at this time, but it looks like banning it would do almost nothing.
Decreasing the strike zone would mean more pitches with no action. That is not what we need.
I’m in favor of the pitch clock and stricter rules about batters wasting time between pitches. I’d also like to see rules to require fences to be pushed back. More than reducing home runs, it would add more ground to cover which would then increase other hits.