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I think both ideas are stupid ideas. They need to call the strike zone as it is written in the current rules, which will speed up the game by forcing more batters to swing at pitches. They also need to stop allowing players to call time in the batters box. Put in and enforce a 10 second ready to bat rule (you have 10 seconds to be in the box from when the pitcher gets the ball back, and the pitcher has 20 seconds to release the pitch from when they get the ball back.
The other rule to change the intentional walks would be to expand the catchers box to the width of both batters boxes, thus allowing the catcher to be standing to catch the outside pitch.
I don't like the idea of the automatic intentional walk because takes 4 throws off the pitchers arm, even if they are not high pressure throws. Also, it removes the possibility of that rare WP on an outside pitch.
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