Javier Báez is a magician. He makes plays no one can make and his reflexes are are so fast that he’ll occasionally just flick his wrist and redirect a baseball right back to the second baseman resulting in an out. I’ve written previously about Javy and how his brand of baseball generates chaos on the basepaths resulting in runs and opportunities that never should have existed.
In today’s Cubs/Pirates finale Javier Báez managed to pull off one of his greatest tricks as he turned an inning-ending routine ground ball into a run and later came around to score.