Hmm.
I wonder.
Will "Mound Visits" be as important as, say, time outs in football?
Will we see them on scoreboards and box scores and those infographic thingies in the upper left hand side of your televised baseball game?
Or will they make a guest appearance, like the radar reading on a pitch?
Just pop up when it happens?
This teeny thing that may or may not actually speed up the overall time of a baseball game... will it actually become a compelling, interesting part of a game?
Because you have to make a pitching change if you go over 6 mound visits.
Or, a possible ejection.
This from The Comeback: Speaking at a news conference later in the day, commissioner Rob Manfred and MLB chief officer Joe Torre said umpires will simply tell a catcher or other player to return to his position if his team has used up its six visits. If a catcher defies that order and gets into an argument with an umpire, then an ejection could be in order.
So just thinking out loud...
Say Carl Edwards Jr. is rested and really has his stuff and is mowing 'em down in the top of the 8th but he's got his signals screwed up and Willson Contreras runs out there, accidentally going over the 6, and Edwards has to take a seat.
And Strop has to come in even though he's pitched the last 2 days and just doesn't have it today, gives up a homer.
That could be a big deal.
I'll believe the ejection when I see it.
Anyway, just wasting time til real baseball happens.
A week from Thursday.
A WEEK FROM THURSDAY!
One last thing.
Justin Turner busted his wrist getting hit by a pitch in Spring Training.
It's the absolute WORST.
I can't find it online because it happened before the internet, but that happened to Ryno one Spring.
Horrible.
Remember Derek Lee's?
That came in April, he broke 2 bones and was much worse than Turner's, but Lee wasn't the same hitter all season.
Anyway, wrists are tricky and while he won't need surgery, it'll be interesting to see how Turner is when he comes back.
In the meantime, that's just a reminder that unthinkable things can happen at any time.
So... not thinking about it.
A week from Thursday.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!