Lou

[jstraw]

I just want to know what the rulebook really says. I don't know that anything is sacrosanct about the pitching position. I think you could rotate players like junior high volley ball between every at bat if you like. This theory of LaRussa that if a player comes in "as a pitcher," he must pitch to a batter seems weird. If it's ok to not pitch to the very next batter then the last out of the inning or even the game could be made before he pitches to a batter...and if that's ok, then there must not be any such requirement at all. Seems to me that hypothetically, you could have on the field a LHP and a RHP at all times, each doubling at another position and switching in and out depending on the batter if that's what you wanted to do.

I don't know the rule on this but I'd like to.