“Every Rule Change Favors Hitters” – Atlanta Braves Pitcher Slams Latest Changes To MLB Regulations
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The two parties, namely MLB and the Players Association, recently agreed to a few changes to the league. These included the advent of larger bases, a pitch clock, and most telling of all, the banning of shifts. Needless to say, this left some pitchers quite unhappy as they felt this might stand to advantage hitters more than mound occupants. And with seemingly so many factors against them, Matzek has taken to Twitter to raise his issues with the game.
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Tyler Matzek takes to Twitter
Matzek seemed to be quite open about how unhappy he was with the move as he took to Twitter to call out the owners in a tweet. As a pitcher, he felt like the new rules seemed to favor the hitters of the league just a bit too much. Said Matzek, “Every rule change favors the hitters.”
Every rule change helps the hitters. Any day now pitchers are going to have to tell the hitters what pitch is coming. Owners are selling offense, not baseball.
— Tyler “Nutsack” Matzek (@TylerMatzek) March 7, 2022
Matzek then took the hypothetical and extended it, perhaps to breaking. Matzek wrote, “Any day now pitchers are going to have to tell the hitters what pitch is coming.”
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With the advent of the new rules and the bans on shifts in place, MLB pitchers will now be fighting uphill battles to get hitters off home plate and into the dugout. Or so Matzek seesm t think at least. And with the Atlanta Braves pitcher sharing that opinion, it seems such an opinion may well be wide across the league.
However, Matzek was not done on his tirade with this either. He punctuated his tweet with something that seems to be a common theme. Wrote Matzek, “Owners are selling offense, not baseball.”
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