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Old Sun Mar 23, 2014, 04:50pm
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What is interesting is the number of people who comment when they have never moved the bat. They do not speak from experience because they have never done it. I have removed hundreds of bats safely, carefully and cautiously. I have never had a problem doing it. No ball has ever hit a moved bat. No player has ever tripped over a moved bat. I have never hit anyone with a moved bat.
I have never removed a bat and never had a problem by not doing it. I have never hit anyone by not moving it, either. I have also never seen it be a problem on any play where I didn't move it, usually because a catcher or an ondeck batter or a preceding runner has taken care of it.

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Not once have I ever had a single issue removing the bat. So why not remove it?
Not once have I ever had a single issue by leaving the bat where it is. So why remove it?
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