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Speaking ASA,
The rule reads (8-5-B)That the fielder must impede the progress of the runner.
Stradling the base without the ball as a runner tries to round the bag would certainly be obstruction. However stradling the base waiting for a throw/tag would not be, as long as the defender was not stradling the bag in such a way to block the runners path to the base.
J.L. Merriman
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