Though that might be the case, it doesn't mean that we should simply ignore a change that would improve player safety in baseball.Īnd that's something Baker agrees with - he believes a "Buster Posey Rule" will eventually be put into effect, and that thanks to Posey's injury, we'll see backstops live a much safer life when it comes to home-plate collisions. The 2008 Major League Baseball draft, was an annual choosing of high school and college baseball players, held on June 5 and 6, 2008.
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Namely, that if Posey had "caught the ball, tagged out Cousins, and not had his metal spikes stick into the ground, that play would have been in the top 10 on SportsCenter as more evidence of Posey's greatness."Īlso, "no one would have cried foul and demanded the rules be changed."īaker is almost certainly correct - people would have watched the replay almost as many times for almost entirely different reasons, and cheered Posey on. College World Series Joey Bart, home-plate collisions and Buster Posey: A primer for Giants fans By Grant Brisbee 38 The Giants are the only team in baseball history to lose a. That rule not only prohibits catchers from blocking the plate without possession of the ball or in the act of fielding the ball, but says runners can't deviate from their direct pathway to the. Jon Heyman (JonHeyman) NovemPosey is a seven-time All-Star, three-time World Series champion, and he won the NL MVP and. Buster, there’s no better than him for me. Former first-round pick Zadina bets on himself with Sharks dealīaker, writing for Yahoo! Sports' always-excellent Big League Stew, disagrees with my stance, and makes some valid points. Major League Baseball adopted a rule limiting home plate collisions ahead of the 2014 season after Posey’s injury caused a reassessment.
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