I went to an Arizona Fall League game this past week, and I have to say that all of the talk of the dangers of the new maple bats that current and future major league players are using these days are a disaster waiting to happen.
I know that MLB is asking all bat manufacturing companies to have a quality assurance team look into ways to stop the bats from breaking so easily and if they do break, try to make the bats so that they do not become splintered wooden projectiles.
The last bat I counted that broke with some kind of problem to either a player or spectator was 11. That's correct 11 times a bat was shattered and either became a hazard to a player or a fan. This is completely unacceptable.
There was one instance where a player was jammed with an inside fastball that ate him up, he tried to swing anyway, and his bat was sawed in half, one part of the bat stayed in the players hand, the other half went into the stands. Thank goodness that on one was sitting in the chair that the bat struck. It made a resounding noise that was heard throughout the ball park. If a fan was sitting there, they could have been killed. That's right killed.
MLB has got to put a stop to this. They need to be proactive instead of reactive. It took the NHL a fatality of a young girl at a Columbus Blue Jacket's game to expand the screens around the ice in the "shot zone" for the problem to be corrected. There are many top round draft choices that play in this league, but as far as a parent is concerned, their child may be their only draft choice, and neither ignorance nor indifference is a plausible excuse for ignoring this major problem. To MLB....... fix the problem and fix it now!!!!
Ahhhhh.....the beauty of Oak
No comments:
Post a Comment