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Originally Posted by Dryden
They should WWE it up to make baseball more entertaining. After the national anthem, each team trots five starters out and they stand facing each other along the 1st and 3rd base lines. Then, Michael Buffer makes a surprise introduction of two to much fanfare and fireworks, kind of like Iron Chef.
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That would be pretty funny. I guess that if that happened, though, they'd accuse Michael Buffer of fixing the games.
But seriously, maybe one team has six guys who can start games. Not a six-man rotation so much, but, theoretically, they always have 2 guys who
might start a specific game. Then they announce so-and-so is the starter. He pitches to one batter, and then they put in the other guy. The other manager might say, "That son of a bitch! He tricked me into putting all my left-handers in the line-up!" Or he might say, "He just wasted a pitcher. What a dope!" Either way, you still have the one starter available for the next day, since he really only pitched to one batter.
Of course, which teams have 6 guys they are confident with? Many teams are lucky to have 5. Also, what's the roster restriction? 25? How many teams would be willing to waste one of those 25 on a decoy?