Ty France is the fucking Meyers Leonard of the mariners. Fucking useless. The fuck you gonna swing at that pitch with the game on the line. Fuck off.
Bases loaded twice and our dumbass hitters swing at pitchers pitch on the first pitch. Seriously fuck off this team aint serious with horrible approaches like that.
Rule changes. They changed pick off rules to only being able to try a pickoff twice and they put a clock on the pitcher. Then they made the bases bigger. It leads to Runners being able to time the steal and they have more room to hit the bag. That is a big (*) in the record books.
You got to wonder how many bases would Ricky Henderson have gotten if he knew they could only throw twice to first base and had a clock on the pitcher. Then made the bag bigger.
Yes and no on the pickoffs. It's actually made runners more aggressive PRE pick off. MLB pitchers have deceptive moves (especially lefties) to the plate to hold the runners so film still needs to be watched on the pitchers. Granted, not as readily available when Rickey was around. That said, the larger bases really has only affected 1st base and the safety around that. Were seeing closer plays at 2nd and 3rd base steals, but it comes down to still having to take risks and they are. Asterisks are only reserved for Bonds and the A*tros.
