What’s this? A manager encouraging his players to walk?
First Rule of the Players Association
↵↵“You don’t get paid to take a walk. Walks help you win. There’s a lot of cases where that’s the key to winning ballgames. Bases on balls. We walk them, what happens? We get beat. Our guys are allergic to taking walks,” McKeon said.
↵“They play by the Players Association rules: Thou must swing at 3-1 and 2-0,” he added.
↵↵That was 97-year-old manager Jack McKeon, after his Marlins drew exactly zero walks in their last two games (22 innings) against the Nationals.
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