BREAKING: The Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved allowing coaches to have two challenges per game in Division I Baseball — if the technology is available. Great news for college baseball
Cool!! Kinda like the NFL additional rules that if you're successful, you get an additional one.
• The third to first pickoff move has been outlawed in college baseball
WHY? If you're in college and fall for that, it's YOUR FAULT. Don't like that one.
• Pitchers will no longer be required to throw four pitches for intentional walks. You may just choose to intentionally walk a batter.
Indifferent. Rarely does anything happen on those plays past LL
• Defensive players not allowed to block base w/o ball.
Always has been the rule. It's called OBSTRUCTION!! Literally the definition....
Official Baseball Rule 2.00 defines obstruction as:The act of a fielder who, while not in possession of the ball and not in the act of fielding the ball, impedes the progress of any runner.
Comment: If a fielder is about to receive a thrown ball and if the ball is in flight directly toward and near enough to the fielder so he must occupy his position to receive the ball he may be considered "in the act of fielding a ball." It is entirely up to the judgment of the umpire as to whether a fielder is in the act of fielding a ball. After a fielder has made an attempt to field a ball and missed, he can no longer be in the "act of fielding" the ball. For example: an infielder dives at a ground ball and the ball passes him and he continues to lie on the ground and delays the progress of the runner, he very likely has obstructed the runner.
Little League actually removed the "Not in the act of fielding the ball" as well. They can't block the base without the ball period.
•*You now may not make a move to be intentionally HBP. If you do, a strike is called.
Once again always been the rule. I guess the only change is that it's now a auto-strike. Great move. With all the elbow guards, players are being taught to keep the elbow out there and take it. Also, it is the rule that the batter must make SOME attempt to avoid being HBP.
•*Teams are now limited to six defensive conferences per game.
Brian McCann rule..
•*Any ruling on an intentionally hit batter cannot be argued.
.... ok.... is this a clarification?? Is there a ruling that the manager is ejected immediately?? If not, this isn't a change either.
•*A proposal to make a 20-second pitch clock mandatory in all of Division I Baseball was rejected.
meh....
•*Expanding the 20-second pitch click with runners on base was rejected.
meh....
•*An ejection/one-game suspension for entering field of play/your position was referred back
Don't understand this one...