USA Rule Changes

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Manny A

Anything earth-shattering with the proposed changes? Are they doing like the NCAA and changing the penalty of an Illegal Pitch to only a ball on the batter (no base runner advances), for example? Or are you sworn to secrecy?

Nothing earth shattering....like removing the base advance on an illegal pitch.

Here are some of the significant (IMO) proposals:

If a base distance or pitching distance is found to be incorrect, wait until the completion of the complete inning to fix it.

Change the time limit in Championship play to no new inning plus one more complete inning

Allow the coach to make a dead ball appeal

FP pitcher must bring hands together for minimum of 2 seconds, maximum of 10 seconds before pitch

Some other stuff to clean up and clarify the "bat the roster" rules