I mean, I'm not a medical professional but I think lots of it has to do with the quick transition from barely moving at all to a full speed sprint as soon as a ball is hit in play.

Think about it, they stand perfectly still in the dugout and only move occasionally when fielding, and then they are instantly forced into strenuous action when they need to beat out a throw. That takes a toll on your muscles.

As everyone said, explosive movements, but also hitting the base is always pretty risky, especially in full sprint. I also think a lot of the times the injuries happen during the swing, but players don’t feel them until they start running.

> In the NBA it's very rare to get injured from just simply running

Also, basketball courts are pretty small, so it’s rare to see a basketball player in full sprint on a court. It’s also harder to go full spring while dribbling, and everyone is following the ball, so if the person with the ball isn’t sprinting, you don’t really have a reason to either

It's the base, right? I feel comfortable saying most injuries from baserunning come from either stretching to reach the bag, landing/stepping awkwardly on the bag or diving/sliding to the bag. Trying to step on the bag when it doesn't line up with your stride at full speed leads to awkward movements.

It’s an MLB conspiracy to weaken the White Sox

That’s 2 core players injured in running to 1st Base

Yet what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger

Don’t worry

It’s not like your only 2 hitters in total with an OPS above .800 are injury prone OFs

The home team fans shall boo the away pitcher any time they check a runner on base. Don’t know why this is a thing, and I both roll my eyes and chuckle every single time.

One thing I love is that when the catcher gets hit by a foul ball, the ump gives him time to recover by sweeping off home plate or another time wasting thing, and when the ump gets hit by a foul ball, the catcher usually goes to talk to the pitcher on the mound to give him time to recover. Mutual respect for those in harms way.

I was at Derek Lowe's no hitter. My buddy wasn't aware of this rule and in the 6th inning he looked at the scoreboard and said "hey, he's throwing a no hitter, I've never seen a no hitter before". Fenway was pretty quiet at the time so it really carried.

I’ve heard from some pitchers who check runners more when they get booed as a payback move. 

Here’s one: what is a swing? Seriously. What constitutes a swing?

Thanks for the info

Thank you

The rule is just as much about the batter doing a 20 second routine messing with his batting gloves and walking around outside the box as it is about pitchers. The basic premise of your post is incorrect.

First week of spring training continues over-reactions to the pitch clock.

Option 3 is just dumb. Taking time out for a pitcher to throw a pitch when the rules are there to speed up play makes no sense.

Option 4 is especially a no go because then there is no incentive for a batter to get in the box on time. It also would make games go slower. Anyone voting for this has not thought through this at all and is just a knee jerk reaction. Which, sadly, is in line with redditors.

Edit: Option 2 would mean a batter can game things with two strikes without penalty while the pitcher still has a penalty on the table in the same count. That doesn't work.

Strike is fine. Get in the damn box.

I don’t think we should overdo the penalties - just do enough to make sure players take it seriously. My thought is that whenever a batter commits a clock violation, there should be a small chance (about 1 in 40,000) that the umpire pulls out a gun and shoots him.

Strike. Get in the fucking box Shinji.

They’re tardy because it’s tolerated. You stomp that shit out first year by kicking people out and making examples out of them - it wouldn’t be an issue. If for 3 years players felt like they could get away with it - why would they stop?

"One thing I learned is fining guys didn't particularly move the needle in the way we need to. I'll adjust as I should as a head coach."

💀💀💀 yeah they don’t respect McDaniel shocker

I hope McDaniel grows and learns from this. It's been 25+ years of bullshit, I think I've developed the patience to give one of the youngest HCs in the league some leeway and develop.

Start laying the hammer down, Mike. Bench, suspend, cut guys if you must. This is your team to run.

Everyone is gonna shit on McDaniel for this but fuck the players who don’t take this seriously. Fuck them all. People pay real money for tickets and these dudes are making boatloads.

An environment is only as professional as the leaders make it. The coaching staff created this problem

MLB thought they knew what that punishment was until they read this.

If the Geneva Convention applied to MLB, they'd already be in trouble for banning tobacco (which yes, is really protected by the Convention).

> Harsher than the black soxs?

The Black Sox penalties were against players. This might be referring to a severe penalty to the Astros organization.

Well he said one of so maybe? I don’t imagine there gonna ban every Astros player though, the front office might be cleaned the fuck out though.

I think the players would rather have a lifetime ban.

Fuck that. Orbit is a saint. If he was involved in cheating, I don’t know that I could watch baseball ever again.

Well, eight players were aware of the fix. The evidence suggests only seven participated. Buck Weaver seemingly just knew about it and failed to report it.

"One of the harshest penalties"

Honestly dont think itll be Black Sox harsh, but close to it

I find coaches don’t argue with me if the ball has beat the runner and the tag wasn’t utter dogshit that I call the runner out

Working solo, it's steals. Regardless, for me it's catcher interference. I can never tell immediately what happened.

Calling pickoffs from B is hard to do. It's not a great angle, and the play is going away from you, which always makes it harder. I take a step forward and then move myself to the right to improve my angle but stay close enough to get a good look at 2B on a steal attempt.

I work with guys who will move to deep C with only R1. They say they get a better look at it from there. I haven't tried it, but I may in some of the summer ball games where teams are just playing "friendly" games to tune things up for tournaments.

I think I used to miss more than a few calls at home because my positioning sucked. Being very mindful of getting myself into the wedge has helped me with that a lot. It is amazing how much that improves your look. I'd bet on myself on replay on any call I've made in the last couple of years.

My current issue is my timing. I have a bad habit of not letting a play finish up, and more than once I've had to sheepishly change an out call to a safe call because I was too quick and didn't see the ball was actually on the ground. Or I've had to change a safe to an out because a runner beat a tag on a stolen base, only to come off the base as the fielder kept the tag on.

I'm getting better at plate timing, and I think my zone has improved markedly as I've been concentrating more on that. But I will still sometimes make up my mind too soon on a pitch that looks like it will be there, but ducks down or tails out at the last moment. By the time I realize it wasn't there I am already calling it a strike then silently berating myself.

We are all a work in progress. Nobody ever becomes perfect at any aspect of this game - player, coach, or umpire - which is why I love it so much. Every day is a new challenge, and every game gives us an opportunity to get better.

The play that I see missed all the time, and never complain about because you guys get put in a bad position… Two man crew runner on first left-handed pitcher, balk.

You're right. And even more nitpicky we could go defensive interference since it isn't limited to the catcher. Why can't we have one term for offense and one term for defense? This is the defensive exception and no wonder we all get confused.

Catcher's obstruction.

I feel so dumb when a batter asks a catcher if they are ok after hitting their glove.

He’s trying to bunt it at the opposing dugout with that stance

Why is he standing on the plate and aiming towards foul territory

Ah, Jay Gatsby

Slashed .349/.428/.554 in 1923 with 43 HRs

Overshadowed by Ruth though

/uj

So you don't have to look it up: 5.09d actually says that a following runner isn't effected by a preceding runner failing to touch a base (unless there's two outs).

They're gonna suspend Tati, Manny, Suarez, and Shildty for the season, and force us to pay the doyers restitution for hitting golden boy ohtani

Dave Roberts better get some kind of punishment for putting hands on Shildt.

Suarez probably going to get something.

Managers leave the dugout to check on their players. He definitely should not have stayed in his seat. Not to mention he is totally justified in yelling/being upset about his star player getting hit again and again.

Suarez is getting suspended for certain. Bradgley Rodriguez come on down.

I don't know what other suspensions are warranted on our end. Shildt justifiably was angry because he just saw one of our players get hurt and Roberts was the one who escalated.

BS DR should have not had yet another pitcher go high and tight on Tatis again he started the whole thing

Suarez could use a break anyways. His heaters must do some wear on the muscles 

That’s what I love about hockey. Gets your hits in, get it out of your system, then goto timeout for a few minutes

Totally disagree. He had a right to be on the field because one of his star players was injured. Of course he ran out and checked on him. And of course he told everyone to fuck off and stood up for his guys while he was there. This is stuff that happens every day in MLB. It's what managers do. You'll be handing out a lot of suspensions if you suspend for that. I get the ejection for sure but suspension is too much. Roberts wouldn't even get a suspension except for the shove and he was being much more inflammatory. A Suarez suspension or fine I understand.