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Old Wed Aug 30, 2006, 09:32am
Tim C Tim C is offline
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For many, many years the professional mechanic was anytime the BU felt pressure and went to foul ground to make the call at first base the PU (who is working the inside of the first base line) was to release inside and cover plays that could happen at second or third. The BU would then cover a ball going out of play.

While I am not a proponent of this system it was used extensively previously in games of two man crews in lower levels of professional baseball.

I freely admit that since I have not attended a professional school in many years and have not worked (or watched) a lower level minor league game in years this system is probably no longer taught.

But it did make sense to SOMEONE in the past.

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