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

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We've found the real issue. You are only concerned about outcome, not process. If you do the little things right all the time, they will work out over the long-term. You are focused on what would be the non-fundamental play that may have worked once last night, but it not the correct baseball play, because over time it fricks you more than helps you.

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The fallacy in your position is you are assuming all throws from that area will generally be on target and the runner has only average speed. So what happens if either the catcher doesn't have a gun like Milazzo or the runner is very fast . Using your preferred play limits the ability for the first basemen to stretch whereas in my argument he would be able to catch the ball at least a foot farther out which could be the difference in safe or out.