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LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Dodgers' top prospect, outfielder Yasiel Puig, was arrested early Sunday in Chattanooga, Tenn., and charged with speeding, reckless driving and driving without proof of insurance, according to a booking report from the Hamilton County Sherriff's office.
Apparently Puig is viewed as prone to behavioral problems by the Dodger organization.
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He impressed the Dodgers and the rest of baseball by batting .517 with three home runs and 11 RBIs in spring training. When they sent him down shortly before Opening Day, they said he needed to mature. According to a report on MLB.com, Puig was removed from a game earlier this season because of an undisclosed mental mistake.
"I heard a guy say one time, you feed babies baby food. You don't give them steak when they are six months old," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said of Puig earlier this month. "Let him learn his lessons where they should be learned."
At the time I had been taking "needed to mature" to be a reference to the need to hone his baseball skills to bring them up to ML standards. Looks like the Dodgers had something else in mind.
Jennings was given a triple on the play and I'm guessing he now leads the league in triples off pitcher's heads.
There is a Rule 5.10 which states that an umpire may declare a play dead “when an accident incapacitates a player or an umpire."
It wasn't applied in this situation, I wonder what the criteria for it is.
I almost commented on that.
It doesn't seem appropriate that Happ is laying there on the ground as Jennings is running the bases. Players' health should take precedent over the game.
Horrific butchering of instant replay last night in the Indians vs A's game where Adam Rosales ties the ballgame with a home run to left in the 9th inning only to have the umpires declare even after watching it on replay that it was a double.
The umps apparently need lessons in geometry. If a ball deflects off a bar, its trajectory will change. That bar, of course, sat well above the yellow line.
It doesn't seem appropriate that Happ is laying there on the ground as Jennings is running the bases. Players' health should take precedent over the game.
Note that the rule states that the umpire MAY. He is not obliged to, and it is a judgment call. The intent of the rule is not to protect the lives of players, but to prevent a team from gaining an undeserved advantage of play as a consequence of a player becoming incapacitated. Since there were other fielders alive and conscious who could play the ball, there was no reason for a stoppage. For example, if the third baseman is shot from the stands by a sniper, the umpire can call time to keep a runner from using the opportunity to advance from second to an uncovered third base.
As for players health taking precedent, there is no way that an umpire calling time would have accelerated the emergency medical attention to any player whose life was hanging in the balance. Five or ten seconds is not critical, and the umpire has no medical training that would enable him to have made such a judgment. You can't have umpires calling time for medical emergency every time a player stumbles, "just in case" it might have been a cerebral hemorrhage.
And I do not support protective headwear for pitchers. Why do you think catchers flip off the mask? If a pitcher gets hit in the face, while wearing a helmet, you'll support hockey goalie masks for pitchers. And hockey pads if they suffer a body injury. Get serious. They are not little leaguers, they are adults, and there is no rule preventing them from electing to wear any armor they want, just as hockey goalies, one at a time, started wearing masks of their own volition, starting with Jacques Plante. They've all seen what happened to Happ, and they can lock the barn door any way they like after the fact, which will do nothing to change what has already happened.
Last edited by jtur88; 05-09-2013 at 08:41 AM..
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