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In Class A Baseball
There are also new changes at the Minor League level.
In the Northwest League and New York Penn Leagues the following rules are being tried:
Defensive conferences.
Three free ones per game like FED, except if a coach uses two in any one inning, the pitchers has to go. In extra inning games, they get one additional per inning and they are accumulative....they can save them up.
Only one infielder may attend a conference at a time. (Catchers are not infielders.) So no more than four on the mound during a conference.
AND, each infielder also has only three conferences! (They'll need a recording secretary to keep track of which infielder talked to the pitcher and when.)
AND, the offense is also allowed only three conferences per game.
If the batter backs out causing the pitcher to stop, a strike is added to the batter's count. If it's strike three, the umpires were warned to get ready to toss a manager.
Umpires were instructed to limit the number of time-outs they give batters and they were told that the batter MUST verbally request time prior to the pitcher coming set. A hand up means nothing.
Batter's must keep one foot in the box, similar to FED.
We'll see how these go.
Regards,
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