New York Yankees' shortstop abuses the pitch clock, a breakdown

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So, you can only throw over three times.

That's one. And now the clock starts

again. Cabiro gets in the box and he's

waiting and he's looking up and the

umpire is going to say no time. And he's

going to give Kabier a warning like,

"You can't do that." He says, "I do the

same thing every time." What are you

talking about? I know. I know. I do the

same thing every single time. Come on.

Boon's looking on. What's going on?

Don't like this. I do it the same every

time. It's my routine. And it is

Cababiro's routine. It's fun. It's

enjoyable. It's annoying. It's the

worst. It's the best. So, the batter has

to be ready to hit at eight seconds. The

pitcher cannot get himself ready to

pitch until the batter looks at him. So,

the pitcher is on the batter's time and

then once you get to 8 seconds, the

batter is now on the pitcher's time and

he can hold the ball. This has become

this way because players have

manipulated the system to benefit

themselves and then Major League

Baseball has to make a caveat and say,

"No, actually you can't do that. No,

actually you can't do that. And this is

where we've landed. If you want to see a

really good breakdown on the rules,

check out the close call sports video.

She does a great job breaking down the

rules and how it went there. Cabierro

uses this to his advantage. So, he is

going to step in the box, but he's not

going to look at the pitcher until 8

seconds, the very last moment he can.

And what happens is the pitcher usually

doesn't look at him in time or they get

ready too soon and then the umpire has

to say, "Hey, hey, you gotta look at

him. You got to look at him." Or the

umpire says, "That's a warning. You

pitch clock violation. That's a ball."

Cababiro has a lot of those. He is a

pest. It's his routine. It's how he

gains advantage. So, let's take a look

at this instance and see why the umpire

gave Cabiier a warning. He's got both

feet in the box. And at this moment when

he turns his head, the pitcher can

perceive that he has just looked at him.

Both of his feet are in the box. He has

addressed the pitcher. Doesn't matter if

he's actually looking in the distance.

You got to be careful because the

pitcher can see this as, "Okay, you've

addressed me." This allows the pitcher

to get set. But Cababiro is kind of

doing what they're calling fake looks

cuz then he instantly looks away and

then he digs in. So now the pitcher is

set when he's not supposed to be and

Cababiro thinks he's won the situation

and he's going to get a violation or a

warning. Cabiro is waiting to 8 seconds.

The pitcher's ready. The umpire says,

"No, no, no, no, no. I know what you're

doing. You can't do two looks. Once you

address the pitcher, you've addressed

him. You can't now look away from him

and play these games." He gives him a

delay. This is the Contrarus rule, and

it does exist, but it's not really in

the rule book. And I don't know if they

sent memos or repeated memos cuzn't

aware of this. That's what happened.

Boon comes out to back up his player.

And you can see Cababiro says, "He's

trying to tell me that it's going to be

a strike. I do the same thing. I told

him over and over and over and over. I

told him." And Schneider, manager of the

Blue Jays, like, "God, yes, you do do it

over and over. It's annoying as shit."

Schneider went on to say after the game,

"There's a lot of major league players

in this league. There seems to be one

guy that has an issue with it. It sucks

that a pitcher like Spencer Miles has to

sit out there for as long as he did.

Seems like it could have been handled a

lot quicker and a lot more efficiently

than it was. But again, that's not why

we lost. It's Major League Baseball.

Everyone knows the rules." Cabier is

like, "I don't know the rules. Like, you

keep changing them on me." So, in this

instance, we got what I think is the

first ever warning to a batter for delay

of game. The batter has been warned for

intentionally delaying. If it happens

again, it'll be a violation on the

batter, not the pitcher.

>> They're on to you, Cabierro. You better

do things right. That was a long delay,

though. And you still got Jazz at first.

And they still have only two pickoffs

remaining because they went over and

Cabierro fed up with the whole situation

now. First pitch hasn't even been

delivered. And we had this whole ordeal

and he's just gonna stand there and

stand there and he takes it. No interest

in the pitch. Fine, you throw it.

Whatever. It was a strike. Sure. He

probably wanted that to be a ball. Would

have been even more head games. So now,

let's see. Both feet are in there. He

hasn't looked. He hasn't looked. He

hasn't looked. And looks. I still think

they could have maybe called that on

him. They just sent a memo out saying

not only do you have to be looking at

him at the 8 seconds, you have to be

engaged. And I don't think that this

look is fully engaged. I think they want

it to be

this at 8 seconds. We'll see how it

plays out in future games. Anyway, 01

and they go to pick off Jazz again.

Another kind of lazy throw. Now they

only have one more pickoff left. If they

don't get him out, Jazz gets to go to

second. Jazz knows this. The Blue Jays

know this. He's going to take a bigger

lead. The Blue Jays know that. So, they

do a pitch out. They don't get him

intentionally. They threw a ball. So now

you got to worry about Jazz dancing off

and not having any pickoffs. You got to

worry about Cabierro. The Yankees are

just winning the mental game. And now

Jazz takes off, but it's fouled back.

The next pitch, more shenanigans.

Cabiro, he's not standing in the box.

His feet are out of the box. He's

learned his lesson. The pitcher's

waiting. The pitcher's waiting. As soon

as he taps and starts to look up, you

can see the pitcher also started to get

set. And Cababiro thinks that that was

too fast. and he wasn't fully ready. So,

he's kind of like, "What the hell?

You're not Timeout, timeout." He still

has a timeout. You get one per at bat.

He still has his The fans were like,

"Come on, dude. We already had a long

timeout." They're like, "Hey, are you

kidding me? What the What? What the

hell's going on? Oh, what are we doing?

Get him out of here. Give him the

strike. You announced that he got a

warning." Kobe's like, "He's got to be

ready." They're like, "Dude, you got to

be ready." He's like, "No, man. This is

what I do. Schneider's all upset. It's

become a spectacle. He's held the

stadium hostage with his antics. It

really changes the momentum. We got a

tie game in the six. Okay, he steps in.

He looks, he's engaged. Jazz takes off.

It's a breaking ball and Jazz has no

Jazz now stolen second base. So now the

Yankees have runner in scoring position.

And as far as small ball goes, this

changes what Cabierro needs to do

because now the double play isn't an

option. So he can hit it to the right

side behind Jazz and move him to third

base. And that's exactly what he does.

He talks about how he does that on

purpose. It's his strategy. It's

baseball. It's small ball. He moves Jazz

to third base. That's why he's going to

get claps from his teammates when he

goes to the dugout. And for just an at

bat where you had a weak ground out to

second on paper there was so much going

on and Spencer Miles the pitcher said

afterwards definitely trying to stay

focused it's impossible to stay hot

because they're at the plate. So that's

a little caveat when when Gabiro has

these disagreements with the umpire he

always stands right in front of home

plate so the pitcher can't warm up

during it. So it truly is a delay.

Spencer Miles says, "I can't warm up or

throw any warm-up pitches." I think

mentally you just have to stay ready as

soon as he steps back in that box. So,

kind of. Yeah, there's a lot going on.

It's hard to stay focused. And that is

exactly what Cababiierro wants. He says

when he hears that he's a pest, he says,

"I love hearing that. It makes me feel

really good because that's what I'm

trying to do. I'm trying to make them

hate me. I don't want them to like me.

I'm just trying to mess with them. I

don't want them to have the full

attention on what they're doing and

rather a little more attention on me to

try and hate me. Congrats. That's what

he does. I'm sure so many people

watching this got to this point were

like, "Fuck this guy." Antics, push

league, that's what he wants. And it

sucks when he's not on your team. The

Yankees actually got really mad at

Kabiro and Garrett Cole famously finger

wagged him and the Yankees got called

crybab. And now the Yankees are

supporting him because he's on their

team. Nature of sports. I didn't like

him. I love him. I also appreciate it.

He's not a slugger. He's not a perennial

allstar. He knows he's got to win the

game on the margins. And this is

something that he does. Now, me

personally, if every player started to

do this, it would become a horrible

product. So, Major League Baseball is

probably going to make another caveat to

the rule or they already have. And

that's what the memo and the update was

after this. Let's watch more small ball.

We got a runner on third base and a

little dribbler. Now, because Jazz was

on third base, the play is to home. And

Jazz is going to be out, but he gets in

a rundown long enough to make sure the

runner gets to second base, which seems

trivial because there's two outs, but

can be very important, especially when

the next batter hits the ball and it

doesn't even get past the outfielders.

But now the runner is able to score

because he got to second in the rundown.

And Vulpi is able to turn a single into

a double because they threw the ball

home and not to second. That's the small

ball. And I told you there was some big

ball. Well, Cabierro in his next at bat

still a little hot, still a little

bothered, still a little mad he said. So

remember the first pitch last at bat he

just took. He just went statue mode. I

don't know if the Blue Jays are thinking

he's going to do that again. I don't

know if that led to anything. Maybe it

led to more confidence from Cababierro.

Maybe he thinks it works because he

absolutely cranks his fourth deepest

home run of his career. Turns a two-run

game into a fiveun game and then takes

his second slowest home run trot of his

career. He had a good time running

around those bases. Who's he rubbing it

in? Is it at the umpires? Major League

Baseball? The Blue Jays? Mix those all

together in the words of Joey Tribiani.

And that, my friends, is gamesmanship.

Small ball, big ball, slow trot. Thank

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