As the Winter Meetings get set to start, there will be much talk about what free agent may go where and what trades might occur, but let’s face it, the most important discussions will be about the latest idea floated by the Manfred Man himself.
That, of course, is the concept of the Golden At-Bat.
In case you somehow missed it, the man who turned extra innings into a farce has thought of a way to put more offense into the game — the game wouldn’t be baseball any more, but still presumably a game. Once a game, under various scenarios that have been sent into the cloud, a team faced with a lousy hitter due up in a key situation could pull a better batter from elsewhere in the lineup and have him bat instead.