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Originally posted by chuck chopper
What is difficult now for me is this newly developed tendancy to call obstruction as soon as the contact happens when the fielder is "about to receive". I need to now wait and see if the runner actually gets put out..
Previously".... the contact was a normal occurrence, now its potentially illegal depending on the out/safe call.
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Say what? The rule itself has not changes as far as effect. The only difference is that possession is required, but the call is still made immediately upon the runner's reaction to the ill-positioned defender. Once the runner is impeded, everything else is exactly the same as before and obstruction IS, not potentially, illegal regardless of the call.