Time for another round of Crazy Strategies.  This diary is to talk about strange things we should, could, or "why not?", in baseball.  

  Previously, we had the infield wall where a bunch of our players would surround the batter's box preventing a hit at the risk of their lives.  As well we had the catcher be played as an extra fielder.  What have we got today?

  Well today, I thought we would develop some unique pitching as well as defense.  Yes, we all know our beloved ex-Athletic, the submariner who baffled people as well as our screwball pitcher, Mr. Fear Mecir himself.  Well here we go...

  The Switch Pitcher
    I was thinking about matchups and how important it is to our not-yet-fired Macha.  Every now and then he would bring in folks from the bullpen for a lefty-lefty match-up as well as having bats that can hit only certain pitchers a la Byrnes.  Well, if we're going to have switch-hitters, then why can't we have switch-pitchers that throw both ways?  That would take some serious talent, but think of all the advantages!  
1.Less wear and tear because the workload is divided in half.
2.Nullifies the advantage of switch hitters.
3.Give hitters way too may looks for them to think about.
Grooming a switch-pitcher would be cutting edge but it would be worth it.  Now of course crazy strategies brings up a few questions.  The pitcher would need two gloves on the mound, if thats legal.  And theres gotta be some way to sort out the switch-pitcher-switch-hitter match up seeing that they'd both keep switching until they're dizzy and fall to the ground.  Now if we can get a switch-pitcher that submarines...

  The Ultimate Curveball
    Another strategy that would take a ridiculously amount of skill is to have this around-the-world curveball.  I'm talking about a curveball that you throw as high as heck as you can in the air, and with enough practice you can consistently land that ball ON the homeplate.  And guess what, if its going vertical enough, thats a strike that doesn't even touch the catcher's mitt!  And for anyone who has ever played, its damn hard hitting a ball coming vertically down after being 50 feet in the air.  All we need is for B-Zito to practice launching balls toward the Good-year blimp and having it land on the homeplate consistently.  Not only is this impossible to hit, but it would be impossible to be called a ball.  I mean, if a pitch is landing on the homeplate from a vertical path then it HAD to be in the strike zone.  Find a guy that can do that and we can have someone's line for the night be: 9IP 81pitches 81strikes 27Ks.

    The Fake-Error Throw-To-First
  This one is kind of a stretch.  Okay they're all kind of a stretch, but then it wouldn't be crazy.  I noticed that when a first baseman misses a throw, like bobbles it or drops it, the runner always thinks about an extra 90 feet.  Of course, if the ball doesn't get far away enough, he stays on his base, but not until he leans away first.  So what I'm thinking is in the situation of man on first, we can have the RFer play very shallow.  Then on the executed play, have him sneak behind the first baseman.  The pitcher would purposely miss the firstbaseman and throw to the RFer, or the first baseman can purposely not catch it.  The ball will fly by Dan Johnson, forcing Figgins to learn towards second while looking back to see where the ball is.  By this time, hopefully Figgins will be offbase and Swisher, our RFer can just scoop it to DJ and tag Figgins out.  This strategy is soley based on the runner "thinking about it".

    The Wildest Pitch
  This is also a crazy defense strategy to trick baserunners.  With so many nitpicks at the balk rule, theres bound to be some loopholes.  This works on the premise that a pitcher will throw a wild pitch thats so off its mark that it hits the ground 1 feet in front of the pitcher so that it bounces vertically right back to him.  As a result, the baserunner usually goes an extra few feet after the windup since he can't be picked off.  Thus, the pitcher just grabs the ball that he bounced on the ground back to himself and throws to first.  Obviously that counts as a ball, seeing that its about 50 feet from the strike zone, but a ball for an out?  Any day, my friend, any day.  This is one of those bang-bang plays.

True, I'm sure I will receive a bunch of obvious loopholes in these strategies, and perhaps a few violations of the rulebook (I, myself have never read the thing).  But, with the help of AN members, maybe we can tweak it enough for it to work for some team crazy enough to try it.  

So, have any of you guys thought of any crazy strategies?  Any of you guys see anything wrong with the aforementioned crazy strategies?  Feedback is good for crazy people like myself.