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Felger & Massarotti

Red Sox Opening Day Moved//Theo Epstein on MLB Rules//MLB Outfielder’s new positioning- 4/6 (Hour 2)

Felger & Massarotti

Beasley Media Group

Sports

4.1978 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

  • (0:00) Felger, Mazz, and Murray start the second hour of the show discussing the Red Sox’s upcoming season and Opening Day being moved to Friday afternoon
  • (8:10)Theo Epstein on an hour 52 minute podcast about the MLB Rules 
  • (19:30)The guys discuss Epstein’s thoughts on the new outfield rules 
  • (28:20)MLB wants to make the height of the grass different in the outfield

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0:00.0

B-Pod Studios

0:03.0

Wait a minute, this sounds interesting.

0:10.0

Oh, it is.

0:11.2

You'll make fun of me.

0:12.3

Felger and Mass, presented by Draft Kings.

0:14.8

On 985, the sports hub.

0:17.6

Of course, where this comes into play, you know most significantly is with with runners on second

0:23.0

base because we've we've all you know seen what happens to to the to the flow of the game when

0:29.3

runners get on second base it just things grind grind to a halt because you know there's a real

0:35.2

cat and mouse game with with runners on second trying trying to figure out the sign sequence and get the pitch and pass it on to the hitter.

0:43.8

And that's something that's as old as the game itself.

0:45.8

And, you know, you can debate the merits of whether there's anything wrong with that.

0:49.2

I think that's accepted within the game because it's gone on so long that if if the runner a second can

0:54.7

figure out the signs and pass it on then great more power to him but it's really the impact

0:59.3

of what happens to the game that's the problem it's not necessarily you know passing along

1:03.6

the sign from second base it's the issue it's the fact that now because it's such a big part

1:08.9

of the game you know the game slows down.

1:11.7

The catcher has to come out from behind home plate.

1:13.9

He has to get on the same page with the pitcher about which of our sign sequences we're doing.

1:19.0

You sometimes have to change sign systems that you're using within the, certainly within the course of an ending or a game,

1:25.1

but even sometimes within the course of a bat, if you think the runner is picked up on. So the game just grounds to a halt with runners on second base. And with the pitchcom technology, that would be eliminated from the game. You know, the catcher can oftentimes give the pitcher the pitch that he wants, even before he gets on the rubber, even as he's, you know, sort of catching the ball and working his way back to the rubber,

1:46.3

the catcher, we saw this in the minor leagues last year, can give the pitch to the pitcher.

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