re: So our 6’”4 first baseman

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you hang in there for your team right there. Youve been there with those guys all year. You owe it to them

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Of course, but there’s no way that was a conscious decision. It happened too fast. It was a subconscious reflex. There is absolutely zero chance at all that Jared Jones had time to think through and decided to pull his arm back as some sort of business decision. Don’t be ridiculous.

You played baseball. Still do, if I recall. How many players did you play with that could just stand in there and wear a 90 mph fastball. And the few you may have, how many thousands of reps did it take them to retrain their brains, that are naturally programmed to avoid danger and to try to get out of the way? I doubt seriously Jones has practiced that play. It would be almost impossible to recreate it anyway, with the runner in the same spot, running at the same speed, with the catcher picking the ball up right there at that angle, get squared up to him, then adjust to a 90 mph wild arse throw throw from 45 feet away that tailed in a totally angle than he he expected and took his glove arm into the runner?