Monkey See...

The recent MLB owners-players’ agreement includes a provision for a pre-draft combine in 2020 and 2021 should the powers that be choose to hold them.  Be still my beating heart.  Nothing like baseball aping football.  First, the three-hour games, now maybe a combine to boot.

 

Just imagine, after measuring for wingspan (calling Mark “The Bird” Fidrych), teams can administer a battery of psychological tests.  Finally, the chance to ask, “How full can a full count go without spilling over?”  Then, it’s on to the trials of Hercules.

 

Doesn’t everyone want to see baseball players do the three-cone drill and shuttle run, five yards-ten yards-five yards?  And let’s not forget the jumps, vertical and broad.  Teams will want to weed out players incapable of jumping over the batter’s box or leaping above the highest stadium wall in Lilliput.

 

Of course, there’d be a bench press because the game has already gone the way of dumbbells.  And the 40-yard dash, except maybe they could take off ten yards so that it would be like running to first base.  I mean, something about a combine should be useful.