Ball Rotation

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by MNBlue

NCAA influence, lack of understanding, or lack of caring?

Other than getting a new ball into play at the bottom of the 1st, why do we even HAVE a ball rotation procedure? IOW, what purpose does it serve? If avoiding delay is the reason, it is a silly one (IMO), since I am pretty sure most HS-age and lower pitchers have no clue that there even IS a ball rotation procedure, and yet, I am hardly EVER asked to exchange, unless the ball is wet. So, it would amount to avoiding a couple of seconds delay once every blue moon. Hardly worth having a rule over.

And, it is really hard to enforce this rule without appearing to be a hard-*** OOO.