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Have said this before...but it is worth repeating..
Was blessed sit in the stands frequently for a few years with a former WS winning manager and picked his brain...
Told me that by the end of his tenure, that the organization was sending him increasingly gifted athletes who didn't quite know how to play baseball.
Two other observations...
I think that it is also worth remembering how difficult the travel schedules are at a professional level...some of those mistakes are made in mental fog...
And frankly how fast and how hard the game is at that level...and how supremely skilled the competition is. At every level it always appears from the stands that the game is so simple and easy. It ain't. It's lightning fast, the tolerance levels are miniscule, and virtually every player literally has magic in their bat, in their feet or in their arm...In the immortal words of Crash Davis..."UnGodly stuff".
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