04-14-2022, 08:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-14-2022, 08:28 AM by OutsiderFan.)
Anyone here as proud to be a Giants fan as I am, knowing they were the first team to liberate themselves from baseball's outdated "unwritten rules" ?
https://theathletic.com/3248957/2022/04/...ten-rules/
How can you not want to play for this Gabe Kapler guy as a player?
“Major League Baseball for individual players is a game of survival,” said Kapler, a former player himself. “And Mauricio Dubón is depending upon his ability to be successful over a long period of time. He needs to use every tool at his disposal to be successful to stick at the major-league level, to demonstrate his value, to hone his craft. That doesn’t ebb and flow with the score. And it’s not just Mauricio. It’s Steven Duggar on the bases. It’s the pitcher on the mound. Everyone is competing on the baseball field. It doesn’t make any sense to have one part of the field stop competing and the other part keep competing.”
https://theathletic.com/3248957/2022/04/...ten-rules/
How can you not want to play for this Gabe Kapler guy as a player?
“Major League Baseball for individual players is a game of survival,” said Kapler, a former player himself. “And Mauricio Dubón is depending upon his ability to be successful over a long period of time. He needs to use every tool at his disposal to be successful to stick at the major-league level, to demonstrate his value, to hone his craft. That doesn’t ebb and flow with the score. And it’s not just Mauricio. It’s Steven Duggar on the bases. It’s the pitcher on the mound. Everyone is competing on the baseball field. It doesn’t make any sense to have one part of the field stop competing and the other part keep competing.”