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Originally Posted by Rich Ives
What baseball purpose does a deceptive pickoff move accomplish?
What baseball purpose does the hidden ball trick accomplish?
What baseball purpose does the skunk play accomplish?
What baseball purpose does a fielder asking a runner to step off the base so he can clean it accomplish?
What baseball purpose does showing bunt then hitting away accomplish?
What baseball purpose does the Miami play accomplish?
Trying to gain an edge. Legal. Live with it.
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Actually Rich, all of your examples
really do accomplish something. They either get you an out or throw off the defense (and all are of course, legal). Let me also add that all but the Miami play are rooted in "Old Tyme" baseball. But I agree with the question "What does waving or waggling the bat
really accomplish?"