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Originally Posted by RchW
Baseball isn't track and field. The benefit would never outweigh the coaching time (who would coach) and the practicing required to refine running technique at the level to where a useful speed improvement is noticed. Can you imagine a hitter taking less BP to practice running technique?
Baseball is not a practice sport because it is played every day. Players do work on improvement but it is gradual improvement vs the intensity of practice seen in the weekly sports.
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Absolutely, baseball is not track and field, never thought it was. Aside from wind sprints I am sure players don't have a speed training regime they follow during the season. Some do have a special workout for speed in the off season however (Jimmy Rollins). I agree any increase in OOTP should be slight, I don't want to see Bengie Molina come back the next season with blazing speed. I was just replying to the suggestion that speed could not be taught, which indeed it can be taught (or improved) regardless of what you are doing, whether it be track and field, football, soccer, baseball or running from the in-laws.