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Evan & Tiki

Intentional Walks

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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E and T Short: Should there be a way to decline intentional walks?

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0:00.0

Steve is in Bergen County. How you doing Steve? How you doing guys?

0:04.0

All right so I've figured it out. I've solved the intentional walk problem.

0:08.0

All right, let's hear it.

0:09.0

Problem? Here is my plan.

0:10.0

All right, let's hear it.

0:11.0

Hey, this is only going to add to the game,

0:13.4

make it more action-packed, you get everything you want.

0:16.9

Okay, so at any point in a game,

0:19.6

if a batter gets ball four,

0:21.8

the team has a choice. The batter either gets their free pass to first

0:25.2

base or a pinch runner gets the free pass the first base and that batter stays at the plate with

0:30.1

a fresh count. Oh my God. I don't want to I was about to utter the phrase you hate

0:37.4

baseball goodbye to Steve but that one is so creative I'm like I'm kind of don of dumb. I'm just trying to think of how that works.

0:44.4

The only thing. Because what is? Yeah, you give them a bit. So you're basically penalizing a team for walking.

0:52.0

Yeah. It disincentivizes intentional walking.

0:55.6

Yeah but there's an easy way around that just don't intentionally walk them and just

0:59.1

the four balls out of the strikes and say sorry I had control issues. The only tweak of

1:04.4

tweak of baseball that I would maybe be okay with and I probably wouldn't is the

1:09.0

option to defer the walk where the player has the right to say,

1:15.0

nah, I'm good, and you've got to keep going.

1:17.3

Now the problem with that is, if you're a baseball player,

1:20.2

you still fail 70% of the time.

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