MLB Pitching Stories: Starters go 6 innings? Rich Hill goes to Boston. Scherzer done. Crochet trade.

this is amazing so baseball two years ago elected to make significant rule changes visavie the pace of the game and I think the pitch clock the ban on the shift the adoption of the designated hitter in the National League it's really speeded up the game it's made it a better game even though the Union's protesting some of the things that have occurred I'm not sure that I buy into the the limitations on pickoff moves and all that but now baseball is proposed and I'll be the first to stand up and then Tony Clark will come in the door here and he'll stand with me baseball has proposed a rule that your starter has to go six Innings has to go six Innings that's dumb the only asteris would be if he throws more than a hundred pitches in the first five innings he doesn't have to come out to the sixth you could you could pull him then if his team is trailing by four runs or more you could pull them then I don't understand this that to me that's tampering way too much with the rule to me you're putting pitchers at risk I mean these guys are Max effort guys and you got guys like Musgrove coming off long stin stren on the on the DL and you're going to have them mandated that they have to throw six Innings and unless they're getting their doors blown off I don't that to me is a that's a bridge too far that's a step too too far from Major League Baseball so that's that's topic one on baseball buyer or disagree oh I completely well I agree with you I disagree with the idea of this rule because it's just crazy I mean like for example there's a lot of times pitchers will get into a game and they're healthy but they lose their mental confidence and it's hard to get that back you get a guy has a stressful second inning you can't mandate he's got to stay out there and and Pitch into the six he gets lit in the second that that's a stupid Rule and I think they've done a really good job of you know speeding up the game already they don't need to turn the clock even further so anyhow they're going to put this up for a vote uh in the off season Red Sox this is weird I mean Boston's got a young pitching staff and they got a lot of young players that have played really well since the second month of the season but their pitchers are still Thin Red Sox have just signed Rich Hill left-handed pitcher 13 years in the major leagues been unemployed all this year was with the Padres at the end of last season came in a deadline deal with the Pirates didn't pitch very well they've signed Rich Hill he's 44 years of age he he intentionally sat out until the trade deadline and he's been working out and been throwing he's had private showcases for some clubs Red Sox just signed him now back in the day he was a responsible solid left-handed starter 90 and 73 in his career but not recently but the Red Sox just signed 44-year-old richill Texas well you talk about pitching trauma Max Scherer out again shoulder fatigue resurfaces again this is 150,000 miles on that arm and now he's probably gone for the rest of the season um Jake deg Grom once a former unbelievable Prospect with the Mets who of course went to Texas as a free agent the gro is he's fought a year and a half in rehab to come back he has now been cleared to throw rehab assignments in the minor league so he thinks he is back and the last one is the white socks the white socks I believe are 30 and 95 right now that's amazing you know at the trade deadline we had all this conversation about Garett crochet their top pitcher who was going to be traded and the deal didn't get done well digging around this is what I uncovered the Dodgers got really close to get in crochet at the last minute the white socks asked the Dodgers to to take on the contract of Veteran outfielder Andrew Ben attendi Once Upon a Time pretty good ball player yeah but he's owed three years 45 mil wow so they asked the Dodgers we'll send you crochet for the front of your starting rotation we want you to take been a 10day offer payroll and we want Miguel Vargas we want River Ryan who at that point was a hot young pitcher at Oklahoma City and we want your top minor league catcher Dalton rushing Dodger said absolutely not the Dodgers said we're not taking on 45 million we're not going to give you all these top young prospects so that's why the crochet deal did not work Dodgers went turn around hung up on Chicago and they called area code is it 303 Detroit and they got Jack FL Instead at a much much lower price so that's why the crochet deal never happened with the Dodgers white crochet probably didn't go anywhere else either so White Soxs are asking asking for the moon those are baseball topics if you want to talk about the Red Sox and old men Texas and alien pitchers and the price tag on crochet yeah just a couple of quick hits here Rich Hill I think was really smart how he went about this because he wants to keep playing and he figured that we're going to get to a situation where there's injuries all over the place and they're going to be desperate and that's what worked out for him um Rangers I just checked they're they're now 11 games out of the they're done they're done and they they lost their whole bloody pitching staff well and then Seager was hurt for a huge amount of the first of the season on top of it but it seemed like it was just a few weeks ago maybe a month ago that Texas was starting to come alive again and and compete I hadn't checked the standings in the ALS but yeah sh are out that sucks I mean but they're done for the year and the last comment on the white socks that Ben attendi thing was an interesting little Zinger in that deal but if you're dealing with the Dodgers yeah ask for the moon they've got all the money why not yeah but they were not going to take on 45 million in a contract for a fringe outfielder where's no place for the guy to play but you you got to ask it's all part of negotiation okay you're a baseball fan uh rule change I I am anointing you to join us on fans Forum you're going to be ah head of the rules committee do you like this proposal six inning rule for starting pitchers effective next season that's a bridge too far you're stepped way over the line you're tampering too much with the game I love the ban on the shift because that really impacted the game I'm not sure about the three three batter rule for the guy coming out of the Bullpen I do like the pitch clock I think everybody's adjusted to that okay wa