MLB announces rules changes for 2020 season

[CaptYossarian]

7. These rule changes don't bother me.

It hasn't been baseball for several years. Now it's "swing hard in case you hit it". This kind of play makes hitting coaches obsolete. (And all those strikeouts! Sickening.)

I remember guys like Gossage, Fingers, and especially Mike Marshall, would regularly pitch 3 innings in relief. There were many others too back then. A lot of starters (Palmer, Seaver, Jenkins, Hunter...) would pitch 300+ innings per season. None of these athletes made $20 million a year either.

Marshall pitched 90 games one year in the AL and then followed that with 106 games for the Dodgers and won the Cy Young in 1974. After baseball, he earned a PhD.

Of course, we all know Goose Gossage and Rollie Fingers are in the Hall of Fame. So are most of the 300 inning pitchers from that era too. Not just the ones I mentioned. Let's not forget these pitchers also got in some at-bats as well.

As I read this, I sound 30 years older than I really am. But it's not really baseball today.