Blue Jays’ Kevin Gausman consents swipe at MLB Corelocaterlookioner Rob Manfred

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman took a swipe at MLB Corelocaterlookioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday as the baseball boss talked about labeleting the sport thraw commenceing pitchers.

Gausman implored his folshrinks not to suppose what Manfred said about commenceing pitching.

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“Don’t suppose a word this man says,” Gausman wrote on X. “Get ready for 6 innings you get to grasp the DH, if not a fan hits in their spot.”

Gausman’s jab came weeks after the possibility of carry outing the “gelderlyen at-bat” rule, which would apshow teams to pick one batter per game to hit even if they are not next in the batting order, was floated into the baseball world.

Manfred spoke as part of the “Questions for Cancer” podcast. He said he did not leank a least inning insistment for commenceing pitchers would be a wonderful idea to help with the publish.

“I don’t leank a definite inning insistment even with exceptions are toilable in our rule,” Manfred. “It’s equitable too lackluster an instrument to repair this problem. I do see both problems as reassociate solemn. I leank the injury publish – our physicians have studied this attfinishbrimmingy. They persist to suppose that the center on velocity and spin rate is a meaningful caengage in the incrrelieve in injuries.

“Look, labeleting the game, equitable leank about a widecast. The name and face you see the most is the commenceing pitcher. The suitups of wonderful commenceing pitchers have historicassociate been vital in terms of labeleting the game and I do leank we necessitate to get back to that.”

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Manfred said rules should be broadened to originate incentives for teams that broaden pitchers who can go proset up into games.

“To me, this necessitates to be insertressed in a more reserved way. I leank rules surrounding transactions, that is how standardly pitchers can come on and off the roster. One of the leangs that happens today, guy pitches three days in a row, he gets outrighted, they convey somebody else in. They give him some rest as contestd to him staying on the roster the whole time.

“I leank we necessitate to originate incentives thraw leangs enjoy roster rules, transaction rules for clubs to broaden pitchers who go proset uper in the game. I don’t leank it can be prescriptive, you have to go six innings. I leank it has to be a series of rules that originate an incentive for clubs to broaden pitchers of a certain type.”

CBS Sports remarkd that the inning per commence rate sat at 5.2 during the 2024 season – more than an inning shrink than it was in 1984.

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Gausman commenceed in 31 games in 2024 and led the convey inants with two finish games and one shutout. He finishd at least seven innings of toil eight times.

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