WBC Announces Pitch Count's And Mercy

by Devyn on Jan 26, 2006 8:15 PM PST

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/worldclassic2006/news/story?id=2307629

"Pitchers in the first round of games, scheduled from March 3-10, will be limited to 65 pitches. The amount rises to 80 pitches for the second round, set for March 12-16, and 95 for the semifinals on March 18 and the championship March 20."

The whole 95 thing still scares me. Having our beloved Haren pitching 80 then 95 pitches after 4 days rest. This can still be abused.

"All games will use designated hitters. Games will be stopped after five innings when a team is ahead by 15 or more runs and after seven innings when a team is ahead by at least 10 runs. A game can be stopped in the middle of an inning if a team reaches the threshold."

Good idea, realisticly if anyone get's ahead by that many runs, there not coming back. Good job to prevent injury.

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Don't stress too much

I don't see that Netherlands team advancing to the semis or championship, so Haren will not likely have to throw that many pitches.

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by Furious George on Jan 26, 2006 8:22 PM PST reply actions

Haren

And while he calls it an honor to be listed on the U.S. roster, as well, Haren said, he does not plan to play. He wants to concentrate on getting ready for the season, and he doesn't want to chance losing stamina late in the year.

"I don't want to have any excuses,'' Haren said. "I want to be as strong in August and September as I am at the start of the season.''

SFGate.com

by gdubb925 on Jan 27, 2006 7:08 AM PST up reply actions

Fortunately ...

Danny Haren won't be making it to the round of 95 pitches ... probably won't even make it to 80 ...

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by devo on Jan 26, 2006 8:24 PM PST reply actions

Mercy Rule and Pitch Counts

still sounds like Spring Training. It also sounds like Little League Baseball.

Honestly, if you ask me, I'm starting to think that it would be best to go a different route and do an actual World Series.

Have the winner of the US World Series, Japan's WS team, and any of the other leagues in a tourny at the end of the season.

Then again, it might only work if it was US and Japan, since they are the strongest, most established leagues. And that might not work because of the players being exausted after the long season and the US World Series team falling behind in the off season, which would be too unfair.

But, then again, they can "delay" the start of the off season and it wouldn't have really any effect since the off season is so long to begin with.

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by Zonis on Jan 26, 2006 9:09 PM PST reply actions

Great idea.

In fact, no reason it couldn't be done ALONGSIDE the WBC.

by Ozzz on Jan 26, 2006 11:27 PM PST up reply actions

If it was held after the season, that is

it couldn't be held during/before Spring Training though, because players from the WS team would have already moved on and their new teams would definantly not allow it.

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by Zonis on Jan 27, 2006 1:30 AM PST up reply actions

haren's wbc pitch count: 0

"And while he calls it an honor to be listed on the U.S. roster, as well, Haren said, he does not plan to play. He wants to concentrate on getting ready for the season, and he doesn't want to chance losing stamina late in the year."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2006/01/27/SPG55GTKVG1.DTL

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by slipperyfrog on Jan 27, 2006 9:05 AM PST reply actions