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Old Mon May 24, 2010, 08:58pm
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Originally Posted by stratref View Post
No body ever mentioned "properly called" the discussion is what was likely to be called and in MLB for what ever reason correctly or incorrectly "no stop" balk are rarely if ever called, epically if that is part of a pitchers "normal motion".
MLB umpires never consider whether a move is part of a pitcher's "normal motion," a term that does not appear in Rule 8. So that has no impact whatever on how likely a move is to be ruled a balk.
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