re: SEC adopting 3 batter min rule for pitchers, only 2 pickoffs

Question - does a pitcher have to see 3 batters or complete 3 at bats?

Meaning, can they throw 1 pitch against the 3rd batter and get pulled?

College ball keeps adopting weird rules that water down the game while allowing the most egregious problem--bad umpires--to continue. Baffling.

College baseball is at an all time high in popularity. If it ain't broke....

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but if you HAVE to add something, how about the batter can’t step out of the box after every single pitch.

No need to step out of the box and adjust your 47 different pieces of equipment after that 1-0 pitch you were never going to swing at anyway.

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this is my biggest pet peeve about baseball. It's absurd when batters do this.

And yes, they should be required to stay in the box at all times.

My god if I could just find you in person.if I ever find out who are, you are absolutely ducked.

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My god if I could just find you in person.if I ever find out who are, you are absolutely ducked.

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Typical low IQ response. Can't deal with being called out so threaten physical violence.

I didn’t like the idea of these rules when they implemented in MLB but, after implementation, it’s a better game.

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What makes it better?

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Fewer mid-inning pitching changes, and none back-to-back, is an improvement in the flow of the game. I think it translates to college well.

The throw over rule in MLB has created more opportunities for stolen bases (as intended), but it's not like they were throwing over constantly in the Majors like sometimes happens in college.

The people making the decision a) don't understand the intent of the throw over limit, b) don't understand that not everything can be modeled after the majors because of the lower talent level.

It's going to make for worse baseball and it's not actually going to speed anything up, because it's not intended to speed anything up.

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It’s 2 pickoff attempts per game.

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But like Lester said, you can still throw over a 3rd time, you just have to get an out (at the bag or in a rundown), so it’s not like guys can get gigantic leads and take off immediately. I mean, they CAN, they’ll just get picked off.

And like Catfish said, it will probably increase both stolen bases and pick offs. I don’t know how much this was needed, but I don’t think it will wind up being a huge deal.

And Lester made another good point people se to be missing about the 3 batter limit. It doesn’t carry over into the next inning. So a lefty specialist can come in and face a LH hitter with 2 outs, get him out, only facing one batter, and a new pitcher can start the next inning.

It still will require some strategy and put some extra pressure on the pitcher to get that guy out. Say you have a LHP that has really crazy splits—LHH can’t touch him, but RHH crush him. He comes in with 2 outs and the bases loaded to face the opponents best LHH, can’t find the strike zone and walks him on 4 straight, then 2 really good RHHs are in the order right behind him.

So coaches will have to be careful about that. But I have no doubt Jay will have a plan for those guys to “tweak” something in those situations and exploit the loophole. Other coaches will too, but I’d bet he does it more often and more egregiously. Which I’m totally fine with.

These rules will change the game slightly, but I don’t know that they’ll be that noticeable. Maybe they will, but these are just tests, not permanent, right? If they fundamentally change the game, just ditch them the next year. But everybody in the league is playing with them, so nobody gets an inherent advantage. It may even give SEC teams an advantage in the postseason once the restrictions are lifted.