Jered Weaver of the Angels was suspended for 6 games for throwing at the head of Alex Avila of the Tigers right after Carlos Guillen homered and styled around the bases.
For a position player, a 6 game suspension means he misses 6 games.
For a starting pitcher, it means he has a start pushed back two games. Maybe at the end of the season it results in a missed start. Maybe not.
If Major League baseball wanted to help curtail the shenanigans of a pitcher intentionally throwing at a batters head, then they should make the suspension worth 6 starts, meaning a starting pitcher, like Weaver, should be suspended 30-games. As it stands now, he's missing games he wouldn't participate in anyway.
What about relief pitchers? How many games should they be suspended for in a similar situation? I haven't figured that out yet.
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Lets go back to oh say 1968. Say Guillen did that to Bob Gibson (the glare, bat flip and admiration society home run trot) OR Don Drysdale. The next guy up would NOT have gotten drilled. Those two would have waited and MADE sure Guillen got up again. Then knocked him on his a** or even better, got him good. And they wouldn't have missed either. Willie Mays and Frank Robinson have both said Drysdale was the nastiest on the mound. They both knew they would go down when he pitched.
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