Major League Baseball is considering a “Golden At Bat” proposal to allow, once per game (perhaps limited to the trailing team or after the seventh inning) a team to randomly substitute its best hitter, out of turn, for whoever is scheduled to bat. Commissioner Rob Manfred, who is suspected of being behind this sort of thing, told a podcast that “There are a variety of [rule changes] that are being talked about out there. One of them — there was a little buzz around it at an owners’ meeting — was the idea of a ‘Golden at-bat.’ . . . That rule, and things like that, are in the conversation-only stage right now.”
If MLB is serious about addressing this at the source, it should send Manfred to an exorcist, or at a minimum, have him committed to a mental institution.
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