[JJ]

For decades in Pro ball players have been "taking care of" those players who committed such "unacceptable acts" against other players. Now the umpires have stepped in and potentially opened a Pandora's Box. I can see coaches coming out regularly asking "Why wasn't THAT one called?", when in the past an offender would get plunked or buzzed and that was that. Point made.
Of course, if the umpires call this kind of play, maybe fewer players will get plunked and that may solve the bigger problem of umpires having to break up brawls and the Commissioner having to mete out suspensions. Double edged sword, would you say? Which is the lesser of the two evils?

JJ