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Originally Posted by RPatrino
How does the FED obstruction penalty influence how you call obstruction?
In my opinion, the OBR method of allowing us to make a "judgment" call on whether to award bases, and the number of bases to award is much more fair then the FED penalty.
For example, during a JV game, BR collided with F3 who was standing on top of first base, and in his own words, "just minding my own business". I instinctively called "that's obstruction". After the play I awarded BR second base. If the game was played under OBR, he would have stayed at 1b.
My opinion is that we should call obstruction every time a fielder is in the way of a runner. The defense needs to learn to pay attention and stay out of the runner's way. If we don't call obstruction when we see it, the defense gains a great advantage.
I don't agree with the FED's penalty for obstruction.
Bob P.
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Fed allows us to make a judgement as to where the runners would have made it had their been no obstruction and award accordingly, minimum of one base.
What part don't you like?