DEFO/DP/Flex explanation

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Originally Posted by David Emerling

The bottom line is this: We waste far too much time talking about DP/FLEX when there are so many more important things to talk about. It's a substitution rule, for crissakes! The rules complexity makes it nothing more than a distraction.

Again - in my opinion.

David Emerling
Memphis, TN

And you are entitled to your opinion.

However, the rule is actually a participation rule created and developed at the request of the coaches and their teams, not the umpires, administrators or the officers of the respective associations which use it.

If I had my druthers, I would get rid if it and NOT replace it with anything else like the ludicrous DH. Play both sides of the contest or don't play at all.