Exploring MLB's Possible New 6-Inning Pitcher Rule & Its Impact

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00:00A lot of rule changes in recent years of course, whether it be the pitch clock and the ghost

00:10runner at second base, all these other things to make the game, quote unquote, faster, Scotty.

00:16Well, here's another one that's in some discussion that has been kicked around, and that is a

00:24six inning minimum starting pitcher rule, potentially, that would be added.

00:30Now, we know the deal here now.

00:32You've got teams that do openers, that guys go for an inning, guys go for this, starters

00:39go four innings.

00:40Now, they wouldn't make the guy sit out there for six innings if he's getting smashed, obviously,

00:47or if he gets hurt.

00:48There are some things that can happen that would allow you to take your starter out before

00:53six innings, if he throws 100 pitches, if he gives up four or more earned runs, if he

00:57gets injured.

00:58But for the most part, Scotty, they want to get back to having starting pitchers actually

01:03be starting pitchers again.

01:06Well, listen, I have my reservations about this.

01:11The reality is this, is that pitchers today in Major League Baseball average five and

01:17a third.

01:19If you go back 40 years to, like, 84, they went six and a third.

01:30So I mean, that's a gigantic difference in how long starters lasted in the games.

01:37I think pitching now is kind of candy ass.

01:41You're lucky if a guy goes five and a third.

01:46You're lucky if you get a guy that gets through the fifth.

01:50It's a miracle when you got a guy out on the mound, you're like, oh, geez, you think you'll

01:55get five innings so he can get a win?

01:57Like guys can't even make it out of the fourth inning.

02:01I think it's never going to work.

02:04I never, how are they going to leave some guy in for six innings?

02:08Now, I know there's rules and such.

02:13We don't believe in rules when we started living like freaky beatniks.

02:18I don't believe in, oh, if he gives up four on bronze or he's injured or whatever.

02:24If they can't even go five and a third now, how are they going to go six?

02:29It's been 40 years since guys averaged six innings.

02:33Honestly, baseball ain't cut out for it anymore.

02:36And I'll tell you why.

02:38I think they throw way too hard.

02:40I think guys try to hit a hundred on every pitch, even on their sliders, whatever.

02:48They just absolutely try to throw so hard their arms fall off.

02:52And then that means to me, they just get gassed.

02:56They can go about three, four innings and throw in as hard as they can.

02:59And then they take the night off, hit the showers, eat some sunflower seeds.

03:03I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:05I'll believe it when I see it.

03:10I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:11I'll believe it when I see it.

03:12I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:13I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:14I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:15I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:16I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:17I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:18I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:19I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:20I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:21I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:22I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:23I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:24I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:25I don't think guys can go six innings.

03:26I don't think guys can go six innings.

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