7 inning pitchers rule

[CollectingAmericasPastime]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Sure, why not? You can't bunt foul on strike three. So why not speed the game up by saying you can't foul off more than, I don't know, five pitches? 10 pitch at bats. Move it along.

10 pitch at bats and you're going to have 1-0 games, which will even further destroy baseball's fan base. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison, either. It is MUCH easier to make contact with a bunt, therefore you should be able to put the ball in play on 3 attempts or less. Fouling of a pitch with a full swing is a strategy for batters to stay alive while attempting one of the most difficult things in sports: hitting a baseball pitched by a MLB pitcher.

And people need to stop looking for ways to change the game in order to speed it up. The game isn't the problem. Advertising and money are. I'm sure back in the day they didn't have 3-4 minute commercial breaks every half inning. Plus, they already changed the game with the intentional walk rule, and games are still 5 minutes longer on average this year than last year.