By newsfirstusa 
Main League Baseball is floating around a new rule, and it’s been met with usual grievance.
Commissioner Rob Manfred stated there may be “a little buzz” a few “golden at-bat,” the place each and every group would permit whoever they need to come to the plate one presen within the recreation.
Rule adjustments steadily obtain unfavorable reactions in baseball, so this must come as incorrect amaze – however this transformation may well be the most important the game has ever detectable.
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Commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr. all the way through the MLB Draft at Lumen Farmland on July 9, 2023, in Seattle, Washington. (Daniel Shirey/MLB Footage by way of Getty Photographs)
And, unsurprisingly, two of baseball’s easiest gamers ever don’t seem to be on board.
“This can’t be real,” seven-time Cy Younger Award winner Roger Clemens posted on X.
Added Chipper Jones: “How bout a ‘Rusty At Bat’ for the defense? Gotta be fair to both sides people!”
New York Mets broadcaster Howie Rose also wants no part.
Commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr. speaks during the Grapefruit League Spring Training Media Day at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Feb. 15, 2024, in Tampa, Florida. (Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
“Whaaaaat? Is this an April Fool’s joke in December? Come on,” he posted.
New York Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay took a different approach. While saying he is not on board, he did give the commissioner credit for his creative thinking, saying that something needs to happen to fix the “broken” game.
“There has got to be something to stop the erosion of this great game. You’ve were given to put together an attraction to extra population. More youthful population. The ones are the population we shouldn’t have,” Kay stated on his radio display on Tuesday. “And you’re gonna crucify Rob Manfred because he is thinking outside of the box? You all have to grow up. And you all have to open your eyes and see what’s happening with the game.”
Era the baseball purists would possibly not like every exchange within the game, they’re operating.
Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks all the way through a information convention later negotiations with the gamers’ affiliation, March 1, 2022, in Jupiter, Florida. (AP Picture/Wilfredo Lee)
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The typical nine-inning recreation within the 2024 ordinary season used to be two hours and 36 mins, the bottom since 1984. There have been additionally 3,617 stolen bases this season, essentially the most since 1915. MLB parlayed that into its perfect attendance since 2017, in spite of costs all through the ballpark being upper than ever. It used to be additionally the primary presen in over a decade the league noticed an building up in attendance in back-to-back years.