We love it when it’s our players doing it, but we hate it when we see someone else do it to us. We’re of course talking about the bat flip. The spontaneous discarding of the tool used to demolish that spherical piece of cork and rubber we know as a baseball. It’s in the moment, it’s fun, but for many years, it has gone against the unwritten rules of baseball because according to some, it’s a way to show up the pitcher.
Well, here in New York we happen to have one of the best home run hitters and bat flippers in Major League Baseball in Yoenis Cespedes, so maybe it’d be a good idea to hear what he has to say about that.