Players who develop the Yips

This has always fascinated me. Player that comes to mind is Chuck Knoblauch. He played second base and throwing to first is not a long difficult throw but he just completely lost it. Chuck hit ESPN’s anchor Keith Olbermann’s mom right between the eyes in the stands when he air mailed it 10 feet over the first baseman. During one game Chuck had 3 errors and took himself out of the game. Strange that he could no longer make a throw that he had done over 10,000 times.

Other players that come to mind:

Mackey Sasser catcher for the Mets. Only effected his throw to the pitcher. He could still throw out baserunners. But he would hesitate and throw a soft rainbow flick to the pitcher. Baserunners would steal on him during this throw.

Daniel Bard pitcher. Yips would come and go for this guy. Couldn’t throw a strike and he was sent down to triple A and double A and struggled. He retired. Yips went away and he went back to MLB for a few more years.