Again, just asking questions. But if Yolbert can’t get a callup now, may as well ship him out of the organization. JR is young, but old(er) minor leaguers aren’t often great either. OK then, bring up Romy. ?
Last time he was up he had a -.1 WAR and .616 OPS small sample size. I mean, fair enough he’s older fwiw. Just asking questions. Hopefully he does something.
Anyway, Rizzo started his leg forward, but it sure looked like he intentionally dipped his knee into the pitch after that. That may have alerted the ump into making the call the way he did.
There’s a clear difference in the way Anderson came at the umpire to contact. Technically by the letter of the law there isn’t. I’d say after Rizzo got mad, he gathered himself to touch the ump in a calm way. They can call it the same if they want to. But there was a difference in the contact.