Some rules questions

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Oz, as someone has pointed out here before, it's not always a matter of logic. Players aren't born with uniforms on either, but the "uniform is part of the player" for purposes of HBP. So why couldn't the hands be part of the bat?

Following this logic to its illogical conclusion, when you drop the bat, the uniform stays on, so the uniform must be part of the player.