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Personally, I think the current system is fine but if there had to be a change I’d say force managers to go through the relievers. They could easily play one reliever per inning and save their arms. Plus, major league pitcher should be able to ease off to save their arm when the game’s in the bag.

Surrender is surrender. The current system allows for the commercial inventory to still be played even though most eyeballs and listeners tune out when the surrender is obvious.

No, just use the pitchers like they always did. It's another ugly form of over-optimization that's been making the game worse for awhile. Not signing "RBI guy" that can't get on base is good. Suppressing salaries & putting position players in to pitch too much is bad

I watch baseball almost every day and I *love* it when there is a position player pitching. When my team is getting blown out it adds some fun to an otherwise miserable day, and when my team's on the up it's also kind of fun to watch them try to hit a 20mph ball.

I’m not a baseball fan but wouldn’t it be possible to tell the relief pitchers to just not go that hard? Trying to relate this to hockey and I can’t imagine them putting skaters in goal, but then goalie and relief pitchers aren’t that comparable probably.