re: First baseman had wrong foot on the bag restricting his ability to stretch for the throw

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if Jones had his right foot on the inside corner of the base with his height he very likely catches the ball. At worse he would have been in better position to step off the base

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Maybe you are saying something not the way you meant to, because that makes no sense. You're saying he should have set up to the outside of the basepath and have the catcher throw directly across the front of the runner? Or your saying if Jones would have lined up to where the catcher was accidentally throwing it, then he would have caught it.....well yeah.

Jones had the position correct, he could have made himself a bigger target and more to the inside, but he shouldn't have had to. Its on the catcher.