MLB Rule Changes: Ghost Runners BACK, The Shohei Ohtani Rule; What is arbitration? Is Aaron Judge still going to get PAID? (Episode 561)
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David Samson
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🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:56.9 | The word of the day is Ghost Runner, which is the single worst name trying to explain |
| 1:05.4 | to you the fan what it means to have in Major League Baseball in the top of the 10th inning, |
| 1:12.3 | an extra-any game tied after 9 innings. All of a sudden, the picture comes out to pitch |
| 1:17.0 | the top of the 10th. Everyone's excited. And then a guy trots out to second base. Man |
| 1:22.9 | on second, no outs. I love the rule. It was just put back into play yesterday. The players |
| 1:32.2 | and the owners agreed on something. They actually agreed on three things. Three rule changes, |
| 1:38.4 | three additions to the CBA. But let's start with the Ghost Runner. That is something |
| 1:42.7 | that started. We talked about that for four years inside the competition committee in |
| 1:49.7 | Baseball. What do we do to make the games shorter? We spoke to GMs. They cannot stand 18 |
| 1:56.5 | innings games. You and I have talked about this, folks. You know that we spend extra-any |
| 2:01.6 | games trying to figure out who we're going to call up, who we're going to send down, |
| 2:05.6 | what we're going to do to for pitching the next day, who's tired, who's not. Then we're |
| 2:09.8 | tired. We're back at the park the next day. Then the players are taking Red Bull or |
| 2:13.5 | Greenies or Whiteies or Pinkies or Brownies. Puns all intended. It's just not good. So |
| 2:20.3 | having a runner on second base means get him over, get him in. In theory, that's how |
| 2:25.8 | Baseball was before everyone's getting down on the knob and trying to hit home runs, |
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