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I agree. The football analogy is a false analogy. If you call the following batter out, you are punishing an innocent individual as well as the team.
If you must call someone out, have it be the person who offended. Does this added out not punish the team?
I still maintain that calling an out for throwing a bat is a dumb rule. The defense did nothing to earn the out.
I think the safety issue of bat tossing can be taken care of in other ways. If you've given them a warning or two and they won't stop, eject them. Or if the league makes players miss the next game if they're ejected, tell the coach that it's time for the player to spend the rest of the game on the bench. If the coach complains tell him that the alternatve is ejection. I'd bet the coach goes along with it.
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