Good stuff from Craig, who takes a higher road that I ever will on this one. I think it will destroy the game. It will chase us old guys that kind still like the game, and the youth is already checked out.
I doubt I’ll ever love it or enjoy it on the level I enjoy a starting pitcher who guts out seven or eight innings, allowing two or three runs and stands in line for the win. If you like it, that’s wonderful. You should like what you like. But it’s just not for me.
Source: Bullpenning may be effective, but it’s not for me – HardballTalk
My proposed solution is this: a rule that states that whoever starts the game is ineligible to pitch in the team’s next three games. The starter may play a position (other than P), pinch hit, pinch run etc – but if you start the game you become a dead roster spot for the next three games.
In the real world, that would mean Wheeler can’t pitch in the next three games. He isn’t going to anyway, so I haven’t broken anything, but I have solved for this bullpenning nonsense that will destroy the business.
