A Golden What Now?

MLB's bad idea factory is back online -- but to a purpose

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First, we’re going to need a new name.

Let me back up. First first, it’s a bad idea. But of course you already knew that, because you’ve played out a few scenarios in your head in the 24 hours or so since the notion was introduced into the media’s bloodstream as something that might actually happen (it won’t) and promptly got torched by the fire-breathing community of “baseball people.”

In short: Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred floated, and I mean only floated, this thought of a “golden at-bat” as a future rule change. The premise is simple in its offensiveness: Once per game, a team would get to choose any of its players to take the next at-bat, regardless of that player’s actual position in the batting order.

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