Major League Baseball Set to Outlaw the third to first move next year

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Originally Posted by Eastshire

That article doesn't give us the proposed wording though. If the OP is correct about the proposed wording that a pitcher must step off before faking to a base (and that it doesn't specifically mention third), then it will apply to 2B.

We'll see what the actual, final wording is. What I saw when a friend of mine who's an MLB Ump sent me indicated that this would apply to all bases. One of the beliefs is because they don't prefer to single out one, specific play per se, but would prefer to focus on the entire general concept of faking to a base without stepping off.