re: Jared Jones Stealing

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If he's stealing two months from now, it's dumb. Stealing up 8 against a nobody opponent is simply an opportunity to get it on film. It's more for future opponents to worry about. A young bullpen pitcher or catcher throwing it over the 1st baseman's head because he believes the runner is a threat could be the difference in a one run SEC game, which as we all know could be the difference in a regular season SEC title. JJ is playing 4D chess. Most good managers do this.

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Hahaha you think other SEC coaches aren't smart enough to see through that but you are? Tony Vitello isn't telling his pitchers they need to worry about Jared Jones stealing a base because he did it up 8 against Nicholls.

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But he has to bat in order to be a baseball position player. So that is NOT the incremental one.

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He doesn’t have to play in the field, but he’s more likely to get injured taking a ground ball to the face than stealing a base. You, along with others, apparently don’t understand how rare it is to get injured stealing a base. The additional risk of injury is almost zero.

Also, still don’t understand the technique. For it to apply, I would have had to say something ridiculous. I didn’t. I gave a bunch of baseball scenarios that are in the same vein as stealing a base to cause injury.

Had I said something along the lines of “he’s just as likely to injure himself getting out of bed” or “he’s just as likely to injure himself walking to class” you’d have used it properly.

Trying to bust out the absurd angle for what I posted was just dumb. Sorry

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No sir. I don’t think you said anything ridiculous. The purpose of the technique is not to disprove the ridiculous; those are clearly wrong and don’t need to be rebutted.

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Like I said, you don’t understand the technique.

That’s ok.

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The technique is to rebut something that is reasonable but still faulty.

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Wrong. You need to brush up on the definition.

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Hahaha you think other SEC coaches aren't smart enough to see through that but you are? Tony Vitello isn't telling his pitchers they need to worry about Jared Jones stealing a base because he did it up 8 against Nicholls.

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You don't know very much. I won't waste my time explaining.

I doubt at any future time you will see Jones on a straight up steal. He runs well for a guy who looks like Reacher, but he would get thrown out by a lot of high school catchers if he tried a straight steal.

I think most every player on a college team, save maybe for a player nursing an injury that could be aggravated by sliding, should be coached on when to make “read” steals and know their limits.

If a ball gets by the catcher to the screen, everyone should steal. The harder cases are where the ball gets away from the catcher, but not to the screen and the player and coach have to read the play and make instant decisions as to whether the catcher can get to the ball and make the throw in time.

Jones seems to be a smart guy with a high baseball iq. He’s played enough ball to know when to take his chance if a ball gets away from the catcher and when not to. Sometimes the value if moving a guy to second to get in scoring position and out of a double play ball is worth the risk that the ball did not wander far enough away from the catcher.

I would be shocked, though, to see Jones taking off on the pitch on a called steal at any future time this year. He might get thrown out more than half the time even with a good jump.

Just like football, you get hurt when you are on the field trying to not get hurt. Go out and play ball. If a player decides to sit out at the end of the season they are spoiled bitches, but people are suggesting that a player play ball and not play as hard as he can.