Jimurray

It does have a whiff, doesn't it? In which case it would be killed except in AZ? Have they gone off the reservation?

In your post you refer to a coach as in head coach and assistant separately. A head coach can come out of the dugout to dispute a call and be restricted or ejected immediately but not by that rule. Or a head coach can come out to question a call without being restricted or ejected.

That is not a balk. But if you called a balk you would not kill it yet.

What rule?

Pitcher is in the game when he is announced by the manager to the umpire. In MLB that announcement is the arm motion.

That’s what I mean by unofficial. No action taken. As opposed to action taken, for example, with the second step from the rubber.

You have an unofficial interp. Cortez and others are not being told to not do that.

Why do you want MLB, the people who wrote the rule and allow pitchers to pitch in certain ways, to give you an interp? You are already getting interps from people who read the rules. Shouldn't those who read the rules have better interps than those who wrote the rules?

Apparently they still go get them. There was a signal crossing the foul line. Did they get the lefty by mistake. Later 2 of them are signaling the righty. The righty was in the game as of the first arm signal. CCS is incorrect in citing when an unannounced sub is in the game. this was an announced sub who is in the game as soon as Mevin lifted his arm.

You tell him what he is violating in the rule. Jeff Nelson told a pitcher he needed one arm at his side. The pitcher gave him some backtalk and Nelson ejected him. The uninformed thought Nelson was prevent umpiring to avoid a balk. There is no balk for that. It’s a do not do that and if they don’t comply it’s an ejection.

I think it’s an instruction to pro umpires to speed up the game. Manager indicates lefty or righty and BU jogs out to signal lefty or righty. The lefty or righty is in the game upon the managers signal. A fill in manager used the wrong arm and had to live with that pitcher.

Ok, the people that wrote the rule don’t know how to interpret it. The people who use the OBR rule to write their own rule, NCAA, follow OBR for the Japanese windup but then squelch any other “alteration”. FED is on its own, including balking a hand to the mouth or currently calling RLI at the moment of the throw. I do not quibble with any of you that would call this an IP in FED. I would also ask if you call the TOP in the windup in FED.

Can a pitcher switch from an overhead windup to a 3/4 windup to a sidearm windup during a game? Is that an "alteration"?Can a pitcher lift his pivot foot from the rubber to turn it sideways to deliver? OBR addressed the double free foot step a while ago and sent that pitcher back to the minors to correct it. They have not sent Cortez back to the minors. @Richvee while quoting the "hesitation" part of the OBR and NCAA rule are you going to dispute NCAA then allowing a "Note 2: A pitcher may pause during the delivery from the windup position without penalty." to accommodate the "Japanese delivery." Are coaches upset by this delivery? Are batters upset by this delivery? Batters are upset by some MLB pitcher's delivery such as the guys who don't windup from a windup and then do wind up from a wind up but I don't see batters upset by Cortez. Follow your code. FED very strict and no Japanese windup for the cohort of some of the simpleton umpires in their cohort. NCAA changing and allowing a pause in the windup due to OBR allowing it but not allowing shenanigans such as double leg kicks in the windup and I suspect Nestor's shenanigans.

I think back in the day OBR also had some reference to "pumps or rotations" and that might qualify. But just go here; Close Call Sports & Umpire Ejection Fantasy League

I think runners on base would not need a balk call to advance as they probably will have advanced during his dance if he was foolish enough to windup like that with runners on. Which I don’t think Cortez would be.