Analyzing Every Rule of Rob Manfred's Tenure! | 1125
5/13/20261 hr 15 min
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Coach Trev and Talkin’ Jake review every rule change Rob Manfred has made in his tenure and say if baseball has benefitted from them!
0:00 Intro
7:00 No leaving batters box
10:50 Chase Utley rule
15:19 no pitch intentional walk
17:15 mound visit limits
19:00 Single Trade deadline actually having a day
23:45 Manfred Man
29:00 3 batter minimum
32:30 sticky stuff crackdown
32:50 Universal DH
35:07 Postseason expansion
39:38 The Ohtani rule
41:40 Bigger bases
42:05 Pitch clock
44:26 Banning the shift - Jake wants to go further
49:17 Balanced schedule
53:30 Position player pitching limit
55:30 Draft lottery / anti tanking
57:45 ABS Challenges
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Jake Cerelli· Host0:29
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Talking Baseball. We are checking in the state of the game, where we've been. How has Rob Manfred done? About a decade later, let's see what we've got. It's tough ball, even. Cole Hamels.
Trevor Plouffe· Host0:50
Ooh, tough one. Brett Butler.
Jake Cerelli· Host0:52
No.
Trevor Plouffe· Host0:53
Zack Bunn.
Jake Cerelli· Host0:58
Punch it. Hello, and welcome to Talking Baseball. Talking Baseball is Fanatic- bu- presented by the Fanatics Markets, where fans trade on sports. Fanatics Markets available now on the App Store. I'm Jake Cerelli. That is Trevor Plouffe. Rob Scirocco producing. Don Feely on our sheet. Uh, and it's a big one today. We're Zoomed out, people. Uh, we're checking in on the state of the game. We've seen a lot of changes in the past couple years, and it's, you know, easy to every here and there be like, "Yeah, pitch clock, good." But, uh, we