Jayson Werth vs. Domonic Brown: Who’s Better for the Philadelphia Phillies?

Jayson Werth is going to be a free agent at the end of the year.  If the Phillies don’t re-sign Werth, rookie Domonic Brown will probably become their starting right fielder.

There is some debate about whether Domonic Brown will do as well as Werth did, and whether it would be a good decision to re-sign Werth.  Here, I am going to explain the reasons why each player would be good or bad for the Phillies.

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Five 2011 MLB Surprise Teams That Could Repeat San Fran’s Feat

Now that the least interesting World Series in years is finally over, all 30 MLB teams can again have hopes and dreams for the upcoming season. Most of the 2010 playoff teams are again favorites heading into the off-season, but there is always yearly change in who makes the playoffs. 

The following list is mostly compiled of teams who were not competitive at all late into the year. The teams are in order of how much change their 2011 season will be from their respective 2010 seasons. A major motif for these teams is how their youth will take it to the next level.

Here are the teams that were considered afterthoughts in 2010, but who are going to surprise everyone in the 2011 season. 

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Chase Utley and Derek Jeter: Why Their Actions Should Be Prohibited

There are rules all over.  From signs, to laws, to just customs and traditions, rules are everywhere.  And rules are what I am going to talk about here.

If you look at baseball, you will see many rules.  The most important of them are the unspoken ones. I believe it’s time to add another rule to this list.

Just like players shouldn’t run across the mound, they shouldn’t act.  When I say that, I mean if a batter doesn’t get hit by a pitch, they shouldn’t don’t pretend they did.

A lot of the time batters act like they got hit by pitch when replays show they didn’t.  Umpires, however, will assume they did, and let them go to first base.

Obviously, a player should know whether they got hit by a pitch or not.  I understand when players trap the ball and act like they caught it.  Sometimes the players themselves don’t know if they made the catch.  But if you get can’t tell whether you got hit by a baseball coming at you 90 miles per hour, you seriously need to see a doctor.

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Some people think that instant replay should be used in baseball because umpires make too many bad calls.  A lot of those calls are made because the players pretend that they got hit by the pitch or made the out.

If you were an umpire, it would be hard to make a close call.  There is pressure on you to make the right call, and sometimes it is hard to decide which call to make.  Having players fake things makes it even harder, because you’re not sure whether to believe them or not.

Note to Chase Utley, Derek Jeter, and others:  The game of baseball is not about acting.  If you want to make like Chuck Connors and change to a career in acting, go for it.  But please don’t do it during the baseball games.

I think that not acting should be a new unspoken rule, or maybe even an actual rule in the rulebook.  There are plenty of ways to enforce it, with one possibility being the enactment of instant replay to see if the players were faking or not.

I know that some people think acting is part of the game and all, but I disagree.  I think that if players stopped faking things like getting hit by a pitch, umpires would have an easier time making calls and the future of baseball could be changed dramatically.

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