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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Fully support the change to 8.5 to align with current practice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">I'm currently agnositc on changes regarding wins and BA. Will mull further. I support the change to handling players traded to the NL. Finally,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Finally, to line up the language of the Constitution with league practice with regarding the retention of waived players, I propose that we modify Article
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through waivers, when </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:yellow">acquired after the last weekly transaction deadline before September 1</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;background:yellow">,</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:yellow">
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As long as we’re gearing up for the season, I wanted to toss out a few discussion items.<span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv17814008971"> </span><span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv1781400897apple-converted-space"> </span>None
of these are suggestions for this season.<span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv17814008971"> </span><span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv1781400897apple-converted-space"> </span>Just wanted to get thoughts to see if we might have
momentum for putting forward proposals later this year to implement in future seasons. <o:p></o:p></p>
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1.<span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv17814008971"> </span><span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv1781400897apple-converted-space"> </span>Wins:<span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv1781400897apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv17814008971"> </span>Wins
seems a dated category, especially with so many starters going five innings per game or less.<span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv17814008971"> </span><span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv1781400897apple-converted-space"> </span>Is
there a good substitute?<span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv17814008971"> </span><span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv1781400897apple-converted-space"> </span>Quality starts? <o:p></o:p></p>
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2.<span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv17814008971"> </span><span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv1781400897apple-converted-space"> </span>Batting Average:<span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv17814008971"> </span><span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv1781400897apple-converted-space"> </span>Would
OBP be better?<span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv17814008971"> </span><span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv1781400897apple-converted-space"> </span>Does anyone play in league that uses OBP instead of BA?<span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv17814008971"> </span><span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv1781400897apple-converted-space"> </span>If
so, what do you think? <o:p></o:p></p>
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3.<span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv1781400897apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv17814008971"> </span><span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv1781400897apple-converted-space"> </span>Trades
to NL:<span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv17814008971"> </span><span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv1781400897apple-converted-space"> </span>We’ve raised this before but have not had a critical mass of support for counting stats
of players traded to the NL mid-season.<span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv17814008971"> </span><span class="ydpecb1cd4cyiv3318499796ydpd327ec18yiv1781400897apple-converted-space"> </span>With MLB balancing the schedule and adding more inter-league
games, is anyone willing to re-consider? <o:p></o:p></p>
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