Pretty sure you figured it out already, but I believe Cito was talking about the fact that he literally stepped off of the mound, and couldn’t step back on, hence needing to flip the ball to Wilkerson.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/rule8.shtml, scroll down to 8.06 d)

MW: Yep, it’s true. Pointed out a couple of days ago by an eagle-eyed commenter.

MW: The vultures are circling – when people get excited, they get irrational. I wouldn’t say that J.P. brings in what the team needs every year, but he tries. It’s CERTAINLY not his fault that the hitters are underperforming to the extent that they are.

In regards to Adrian co-alumni’s comments, Cito could not have gone back to the mound to replace Frasor if the same batter is at the plate. Managers can’t make two trips to the mound while the same batter is at the plate. If they do, the manager is immediately ejected, and the pitcher has to stay in the game to face the hitter….once the hitter’s atbat is complete, the pitcher must then be removed from the game. Maybe this is what Cito was referring to, i’m not sure.

MW: Must be.

mike who would you pick as the better power hitter and rbi producer:

player A 1889ab 67hr 258rbi
player B 2294ab 55hr 281rbi

don’t ask for more stats you are not getting any. after you pick I will tell you who these people are.

MW: I need more stats.

MW: I act like a girl?

MW: You, you’re good, you.

MW: I think the casual fan loves him. I was being sarcastic, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all that if Godfrey and Ricciardi lost their jobs, Rogers would try to bring back Beeston and Gillick.

On a scale of 0 to 10, what would rating would you give JP’s performance this year ? Over his tenure ?

The Jays should have let JP go back to Boston when he played the Jays off against the Red Sox. JP is no Billy Bean – never was and never will. He just talks a good story.

If you really looked at the multiple transactions that JP has done during his stay with the Jays in an objective non “rose colored” glasses and considered the tremendous attitude that JP has – at times complete disrespect for anybody who challenges him, the majority of people including many in sports who are as close to the Jays as you would say JP has done a terrible job and needs to go now. There are way more negatives than positives.

Not sure why you are such a JP fan – never understood it and never will since you are regarded as a knowledgeable baseball person.

If JP were in a business role and delivered these types of results he would have likely been fired a long time ago.

What is it going to take for you to admit that JP has done a bad job ?

As always, I welcome your response.

Thanks

MW: I don’t think any objective view of Ricciardi’s tenure here could be that he has done a “terrible job”. There are a few mistakes that could be pointed to – overpaying Frank Thomas and painting the Jays into a corner with the vesting option, releasing Scott Eyre and Chad Gaudin, signing Corey Koskie, but those are few. He’s constantly trying to make the team better, and it’s certainly not his fault that guys like Overbay, Rios, Wells and Hill have fallen off the table this year. He hasn’t gotten fleeced on a single trade yet, and has gotten the better of most of the deals he has made. It’s too early to have an overall view of his drafting, but out of the draft, he’s come up with guys like Hill, Lind, Marcum, Litsch, Tallet, McDonald, Overbay, Scutaro and Accardo. I don’t blame him for the Wells contract, because I think he’d rather have traded him. Unless he goes insane over the next couple of months and starts making really bad trades, nothing will convince me that he’s done a bad job, because I don’t think he has.

MW: You only get a complete game if you pitch the whole (complete) game.

MW: I don’t know. But I don’t mind it. Wow, and on a Saturday night, too? Speaks volumes.