Major League Baseball is floating around a novel rule, and it’s been met with expansivespread criticism.
Cotransferrlookioner Rob Manfred said there is “a little buzz” about a “gagederen at-bat,” where each team would apvalidate whoever they want to come to the ptardy one time in the game.
Rule alters normally get pessimistic reactions in baseball, so this should come as no surpascend – but this alter could be the hugegest the sport has ever seen.
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Cotransferrlookioner Robert D. Manfred Jr. during the MLB Draft at Lumen Field on July 9, 2023, in Seattle, Washington. (Daniel Sengagey/MLB Pboilingos via Getty Images)
And, unastonishingly, two of baseball’s best joiners ever are not on board.
“This can’t be genuine,” seven-time Cy Young Award triumphner Roger Clemens posted on X.
Added Chipper Jones: “How bout a ‘Rusty At Bat’ for the defense? Gotta be unpartisan to both sides people!”
New York Mets widecaster Howie Rose also wants no part.
Cotransferrlookioner Robert D. Manfred Jr. speaks during the Gviolationfruit League Spring Training Media Day at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Feb. 15, 2024, in Tampa, Florida. (Mike Carlson/MLB Pboilingos via Getty Images)
“Whaaaaat? Is this an April Fool’s joke in December? Come on,” he posted.
New York Yankees widecaster Michael Kay took a contrastent approach. While saying he is not on board, he did donate the cotransferrlookioner praise for his conceiveive leanking, saying that someleang needs to happen to repair the “broken” game.
“There has got to be someleang to stop the erosion of this fantastic game. You’ve got to originate an pguide to more people. Younger people. Those are the people we do not have,” Kay said on his radio show on Tuesday. “And you’re gonna crucify Rob Manfred becaengage he is leanking outside of the box? You all have to prolong up. And you all have to uncover your eyes and see what’s happening with the game.”
While the baseball purists may not appreciate any alter in the sport, they’re laboring.
Cotransferrlookioner Rob Manfred speaks during a novels conference after negotiations with the joiners’ association, March 1, 2022, in Jupiter, Florida. (AP Pboilingo/Wilfredo Lee)
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