Ask Springfield Cardinals center fielder Harrison Bader where he comes down on the hot-button issue of bat flips, and you’ll get a laugh before he answers.
It has been a thing of late, when hitters toss their bats in the air, usually with a flourish, after hitting what is a no-doubt home run. If often results in posturing and, in extreme cases, brush-back pitches and skirmishes later on.
Bader has never been involved in the bench-clearing nonsense, but bat flips? Well ...
“I’ve had my share of bat flips, at times too much,” he admitted.
It’s an answer that begs for some elaboration, so he gives it without prodding.