TORONTO, ON - OCTOBER 14: Jose Bautista
Jose Bautista is a trailblazer when it comes to bat flips.
Ever since Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista corked an epic bat flip in Game 5 of the 2015 ALDS, bat flips have become more common among major-league hitters after hitting a sure-fire home run.
Bat flips have also been a talk of baseball’s unwritten rules as it’s deemed as showing off the pitcher. Some pitchers like Trevor Bauer of the Cincinnati Reds now understand that bat flips are a part of the game and embrace it while others like former Blue Jay Jimmy Cordero, who’s now apart of the Chicago White Sox, still take offence to it (In a game against the Chicago Cubs, Willson Contreras hit a home run, flipped his bat and his next at-bat facing Cordero resulted in him getting plunked).