Projected subs

[rwest]

Originally Posted by SC Ump

First - - - Very good input from all on this whole thread. I do plan on changing the way I do this on offense and I will start accepting these multiple offensive changes.

The reason I started this was exactly that Mike mentions here about what "projected" means. I do not do ASA now, but when I first started ASA was all I did. My first year (1989), I attended a clinic facilitated by an ASA natioanal staff member. He noted that an offensive batter did not enter the game until they came up to bat and thus future batters were "projected". His specific example is what would you do if you accepted the third batter as a sub and then something happened to the batter or the coach changed their mind before they came up to bat; then you'd have a player subbed-in, then subbed-out, without ever actually entering the game.

After reading these responses and thinking a little more, I agree I was OOO a bit. Example: what if a sub is announced and then trips and busts his lip coming out of the dugout. You would still have a player subbed-in and subbed-out, without ever actually entering the game. (In this example with my old definition, I would have been allowing the couch to "project" the sub as much as 15 seconds in advance of when the sub actually came up. - - - I say in jest.)

Once a sub has been reported to the game umpire they are officially in the game. Therefore, if a coach reports that the first 3 batters are changing, they are official once reported and are not "projected subs".