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.

And you seem to not be able to comprehend just how little reaction time Jones had. Milazzo's got a great arm and probably threw that ball 90 mph+. From 45 (ish) feet. And that aint like 90 from 60 feet 6 inches. That gets on you quick. No time to react any better than he did. But you can't see the forest for the trees. Standing where Bear was will record many more put outs from the catcher if he continues to do what he is being fundamentally taught.

Regardless, what a strange hill to die on here.

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Posted by tigersbb

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Posted on 5/11/24 at 5:54 pm to Hot Carl

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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.

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.

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