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the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus presented by the Play Index

baseballreference.com. I am Bell Lindbergh of Brentland and he is similar of Baseball

Perspectus. Hello. Hey, going straight into emails, right? Yes, sir. Okay, we're

doing an email show. Had some good emails accumulated. I will start with one

that you called an A-plus idea in your response. It's from Luis and he says

that he's had this pet idea for some time. Although now that he thinks of it, we

may have mentioned it in passing in one of your episodes. I don't think we did.

Any of a team's bullpen catchers is eligible to enter the game if all your

other catchers are out of the game and or injured. Said bullpen catcher would

not be permitted to hit and his turn would result in an automatic out. So it's

not quite like just having a 26-rots response. The spirit of the rule change

would be to remove the fear of your last catcher being injured. Obviously, though,

teams could try to use this as efficiently as possible and get some competitive

advantage of it. So imagine Commissioner Mammtrid announces today that this

rule will go into effect starting with all games. Tomorrow on the conservative

side, I think starting catchers would be pulled out of blowouts more often and

there'd be more catcher substitutions in extra inning games. What else can you

imagine coming out of this? You'd have to imagine that there'd be a lot more

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