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Collisions

Categories:
2021 Regular Season
Written by:
on June 8, 2021

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.

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Working, Bleeding, Back to Working

Categories:
2021 Regular Season,Rules and Standards,Vignettes
Written by:
on May 16, 2021

Once upon a time a second baseman got smoked in the face by a rightfielder, both attempting to make the ball go into their glove.

There was blood.

He got back to work.

Yaddi throws a 90mph strike from his knees to the same bloodied second baseman
Makes the play.
Another day at the office.
Another near-death experience.

2021 Collision Management

Categories:
2021 Regular Season
Written by:
on May 15, 2021

hypothesis: shifts are increasing collisions

rules:

  1. it is the job of the centerfielder to call off the the other outfielders
  2. it is the job of ANY outfielder to call off the infielder
  3. it is the job of the shortstop to call off any of the other infielders / basemen
  4. if there is discrepancy, the infielder (with experience) can also call off the other infielders, but that is a team / player / situation / decision decided beforehand, or generally recognized vantage point situation

Bonus observation:

KMOX radio out of St. Louis is hilarious

The Unorthodox Strategy of Injury and Team Dynamics

Categories:
2020 Spring Training
Written by:
on February 27, 2020

The gloves have barely been worked in, and this week already saw the unfortunate news of Luis Severino having to go through Tommy John surgery and being forced to miss the 2020 Season, and murmurs of Giancarlo Stanton dealing with a calf injury that has his ability to be ready for Opening Day in-doubt.

Considering the enormous success of the Yankees last year: 

We conspire to think that the Yankees have manipulated the rules of injuries to get dynamic teams on the field as the season progresses.

The MLB even had to change the rules for what constitutes a 10-day or 15-day injured list if it is a pitcher or a batter because the Yankees were fielding amazing teams where players kept coming back from their at the right moment.

Also, you can manipulate lineups when injuries are in play and mitigate the potential risk of disillusionment with the players if the management likes to have you out of the lineup.

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