training and i talked about pitchers wearing the reinforced hats and i was surprised what jim leyland told me, at least. look like mechanical men going around. and we re going to look like àstar wars before it is all ove. i m not for that. the game is the game and that s just what it is. he s just saying, that s the price you play as a major league baseball player. you re going to get hurt. things like this are going to happen. justin verlander told me he d try a protective helmet, but if it missed up his pitching style, he wouldn t wear it. these guys don t want to do anything that will interfere with the way they play the game. i had a lot of pitchers tell me that they think it will take somebody dying on the field for players to want to wear this equipment and for major league baseball to put in rules to enforce wearing this kind of equipment. but, let s be honest, baseball has been slow to embrace these kind of protective measures, even in tragic circumstances.