[swaldo]

Warm up pitches - nice! If they do this for starting pitchers next year I'd like to see them go one step further. The game is programmed to allow only 5 pitches during a game and Russell said this will not change. However, for pitchers who have an arsenal of more than 5 pitches it would be nice to be able to pick which ones you are going to go with in the game.

So for example pre-game you're in the bullpen warming up (which is a separate mode programmed to allow more than 5 pitches.) You then feel out all of your pitches with the warm up tosses. When done you pick the 5 you want to go with in the game.

Awhile back I was reading a book and Mike Mussina said this is what he does. He has 10 pitches to work with or whatever and he throws out the ones that don't have any pop during warm ups. Also, this would sort of satisfy those who don't like the 5 pitch limitation as well - at least there's some control. Mussina said there were days when he felt nothing was working, and if that were programmed in the game it would be pretty cool. To start out the first inning with a real bad feeling or a great feeling if everything is working.

Probably would entail some crazy programming so perhaps it's too much I dunno.