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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, May 17, 2021Baseball America [$]: ‘It’s Awful’: Sloppy Play Rampant Across Minors After Unprecedented Layoff
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Posted: May 17, 2021 at 03:02 PM | 15 comment(s)
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1. Walt Davis Posted: May 17, 2021 at 04:27 PM (#6019237)Perhaps guys who in the past would have been playing Rookie or short-season A-ball are having to play full-season A now.
So about 1 extra of every 200 playable balls per team is leading to an error. What's that, maybe one extra error a week? All you need is a couple guys at Class A playing like Jeter did there at 19 years old with 56 errors (average of 4 errors every 9 games).
Wait.... is the scout talking about minor league games or Major League Baseball here?
Sad, really.
It's almost as if several levels of minor leagues might be useful. I wonder if Manfred would consider that.
There’s teamwork stuff and all but there’s plenty of practice and drills you can do. Whether players making peanuts during a pandemic can afford to devote all their time to that is another question.
That statement rings true to a certain extent. I do think "the lab" has its limits - for hitters, facing live pitching and pitch sequencing is important, and vice versa for pitchers. I think you can get 90%, maybe 95%, of the way there in fielding just with practice. However, the ball is going to come off the bat differently in game situations and of course situational awareness is tough to duplicate. But it does seem like it would be a lot easier to work on hitting (bat speed and strength) and pitching (arm strength and spin rate) in a pandemic world. Fielding drills are going to need at least one other person willing to work with you, and probably two.
I do think that "baseball is a game sport, not a practice sport" is probably an overreach. Baseball seems like a practice sport more than most other sports where teamwork and on-field chemistry play a lot bigger role.
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