We have three rule proposals for voting this year. As a reminder, each owner gets one (1) vote, regardless of how many teams they own. Majority vote rules.
With Thanksgiving upcoming, votes will be due TUESDAY DECEMBER 3 by 11:59 pm.
(1) Remove the rule that a tired pitcher has to be removed at the beginning of the inning after which he becomes fatigued during the regular season (it already doesn't apply in the playoffs).
(2) Delete the rule about having dues (this is just clean-up; we haven't had dues in, gosh, at least ten years or so)
(3) Allow teams to "freeze" their team's ballpark dimensions, if they so choose. Once Strat releases the new ballpark ratings, team can either choose to adopt those dimensions for their ballpark or continue with the previous year's ratings. This allows teams to keep their ballpark's dimensions indefinitely, or choose to adopt the new season's ratings. (Note that this is a free ballpark change season for all teams).
(1) No to the proposal as written. I would, however, have supported some sort of exception for extra inning situations where all you have left is tired pitchers, in which case its better to stick with the one who's in there rather than cycle through all your tired pitchers and foul things up for the next game.
(2) Yes
(3) No to the proposal as written. I assume the rationale is that its stupid and unrealistic that your ballpark is a fundamentally different ballpark this year than it was last year. Which is fair enough. But if that's the attitude then to me it seems odd that we get to look at the new dimensions before we decide. I mean why do I get to say "no no that's not fair I reject that" to a random strat quirk that hurts me, but then still benefit from a random strat quirk that helps me? I am personally fine with the current system, but I think if we are going to do this at all it, it would be more strategically interesting and more balanced if the decision to lock in the stadium was made before we knew the new dimensions.
