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Originally posted by PeteBooth
You can bet your bottom dollar Joe Torre and any other manager wants to know where Pedro Guerro is playing. The line-up card shows this.
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then all he has to do is look into right field.
Suppose it wasn't a "shift", but the manager just had the fielders play a different position at the start of an inning. Is that a violation? Does it matter if it's the first inning? So, to make sure I have the right number of players, I'll just put the positions in order on the line-up card -- putting F1 and F2 where they belong, then starting with F3 at the top and continuing to F9 at the bottom. If F9 isn't at the bottom, then I have a problem.
Very few of those players will be "in position" when the game starts -- but it's not a violation.