Baseball in 2020 brought many changes to the actual product on the field, some of which were necessitated by the shortened season and pandemic and some which felt like Rob Manfred taking as an excuse to experiment with rule changes to the sport he’s flirted with before. While it was interesting to watch these changes play out in the laboratory of this weird little 2020 season, some new rules made a better impression than others. Here are our thoughts about which changes should stick around, and which should be relegated to the memory-sarcophagus in which we’re burying the rest of 2020:
Universal DH:
Kate: Yes.