Over the last decade, baseball has seen a surge in position players pitching. The practice is practical and enjoyable, though as Sports Illustrated’s Emma Baccellieri wrote earlier this week, it might not be as fun as it once was because it has become far more common.
SI’s MLB staff considered whether the increasing number of position players pitching is good for baseball and what (if anything) the league should do to address it.
Tom Verducci
Watching a position player go to the mound is not sacrilege. It’s fun. There is no need to legislate against something that’s done on every level of baseball—and that especially takes us back to Little League days.