I take SOME of that with a grain of salt. I think there is a divide in sports, but especially in baseball between the gym rat types and the instinctive roll out the ball and play types.
Biggio and Bagwell were known to be gym rat types. Bregman is of the same mold and Dusty had that some old school bias. And you definitely don't want a player whose mind and heart are not in game - like Anthony Rendon.
As long as everyone takes their job seriously, is prepared, and works to be healthy, there are different valid approaches to the game. I can't vouch for clubhouse routine, but Altuve is a good kind of example of the other approach. He approaches the game instinctively. Integrity aside, I suspect that is another reason he did not want to be involve with the trash-can game - he isn't looking to think at the plate, but has a great feel to the game.
What you don't want is a bias where one style of approach is so biased against the other that there is a perception of a player not being up to snuff, like we saw with Dusty and Chas.
If someone struggles because they don't do their homework, or is injured because they don't take care of their body, then teammates and coaches have a right to be upset. But I don't like to see players discredited because they approach the game differently. Baseball is as much art as it is science.
Biggio and Bagwell were known to be gym rat types. Bregman is of the same mold and Dusty had that some old school bias. And you definitely don't want a player whose mind and heart are not in game - like Anthony Rendon.
As long as everyone takes their job seriously, is prepared, and works to be healthy, there are different valid approaches to the game. I can't vouch for clubhouse routine, but Altuve is a good kind of example of the other approach. He approaches the game instinctively. Integrity aside, I suspect that is another reason he did not want to be involve with the trash-can game - he isn't looking to think at the plate, but has a great feel to the game.
What you don't want is a bias where one style of approach is so biased against the other that there is a perception of a player not being up to snuff, like we saw with Dusty and Chas.
If someone struggles because they don't do their homework, or is injured because they don't take care of their body, then teammates and coaches have a right to be upset. But I don't like to see players discredited because they approach the game differently. Baseball is as much art as it is science.
