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Rob Manfred has ideas about changing baseball. You have opinions about his ideas, I’m sure, but I don’t care. I don’t hate you, it’s just that this article is not about Rob Manfred’s ideas, it’s inspired by Rob Manfred’s ideas.

Well, one of his ideas: the three-out minimum for pitchers.

I’m not going to stake out a position on this for the sake of a take. Rather, I have an alternative: instead of forcing pitchers to face a minimum and killing the LOOGY, what if managers could select one player per game that could be substituted at will.