Collisions

How many collisions or near-collisions are there?

What does this tell us?

Baseball is like the weather.

They should be showing replays of some of these current collisions at the Annual Players’ Meeting as a warning.

One might not be too extreme to predict that someone will die on the field In the next 2 years.

A collision between a batter / baserunner and a first baseman that came out of nowhere!

Both players need to leave the game.

Think Bryce Harper’s near miss.

Sometimes, people laugh when I take a quick breath when players run towards each other, but you just need to watch a small sample of games to see how powerful these guys are: 200 lbs x 10 feet/second of momentum going one way and 200 lbs x 10 feet/second going the other is like running into a tree.

Now imagine at full sprint speed 20+ feet/second!

And the pitchers and batters are loaded guns when it comes to the ball.

Anecdote:

I remember in cricket 5-years back or more, a guy deflected the ball on his swing and it hit him in the throat and that was it for him.

And he was wearing the full cage helmet and protective gear.