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Originally Posted by gordon30307
During the "season" not legal. Right now "fall ball" is going on. Very informal. We're playing Fed. Rules but many teams will bat everyone, free subs, etc. If that's how you're playing allow it. If you're playing strictly fed rules don't allow it.
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This is awful advice. If your league tells you to allow it, allow it. If your league is silent on the subject, don't.
Otherwise you're simply allowing a "courtesy runner" (i.e. a speedster at the most critical moment) for whoever the manager feels like running for... you have no way to enforce that the person being run for actually does pitch the following inning, and no rule to back you up if manager decides instead to use a different pitcher (and he may have perfectly good reasons to NOT use the pitcher he thought he was going to use when he told you that). And if you allow it in the early innings, how can you fail to allow it in a potential last inning of the game, where manager could just say, "If we DO play another inning, the girl on 2nd base is going to pitch," regardless of whether another inning is even possible.