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Originally Posted by PATRICK
The manager is not required to give you all the changes at once. He can have each batter report in, or he can give them all to you at once. His choice, not ours.
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The only time a substitution would be required immediately is if an event caused a whole in the line-up, as in an ejection, an injury forcing the removal of a player from the game, someone's mother calling their child home, etc. IOW, when it is obvious the player presently in the line-up can no longer continue.
And before it is raised, yes, there are circumstances where a shorthanded rule permits a team to continue without a sub if one is not available.