OBR rule check

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by jkumpire

I appreciate the messages very much.

Jim, do you have a rules or interp citation for that? I am not understanding why you would limit the batter to only one switch, though I can see limiting the pitcher to one switch per at bat.

Does the switch have to be at the start of an AB, or anytime during the AB?

Thanks!

It's in NAPBL and MLBUM.

NCAA and FED are the rules sets that require the pitcher to "declare" (although the effect is practically the same).

[jkumpire]

I can't get my hands on my NAPBL stuff, I will have to find it for the rule citing.

[waltjp]

Originally Posted by Jim Porter

The correct ruling on ambidexterity is that both the batter and the pitcher may switch one time per at-bat. If the pitcher switches throwing arm and the batter switches batter boxes they must stay that way for the duration of the at-bat. If a pinch hitter enters during an at-bat, then it starts all over again -- each may again switch once.

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

It's in NAPBL and MLBUM.

NCAA and FED are the rules sets that require the pitcher to "declare" (although the effect is practically the same).

I always believed that the pitcher had to "declare" before the AB and could not change until the AB was completed. Jim's statement is allowing the pitcher to change during the AB.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by waltjp

I always believed that the pitcher had to "declare" before the AB and could not change until the AB was completed. Jim's statement is allowing the pitcher to change during the AB.

Under OBR, F1 is allowed to switch.

Under NCAA and FED, F1 must declare and then can't switch.

[waltjp]

Thanks Bob.