{"id":25963,"date":"2020-07-13T03:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/controversial-clint-frazier-makes-admirable-mask-pledge\/"},"modified":"2020-07-13T03:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T00:12:00","slug":"controversial-clint-frazier-makes-admirable-mask-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/controversial-clint-frazier-makes-admirable-mask-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"#Controversial Clint Frazier makes admirable mask pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Controversial Clint Frazier makes admirable mask pledge<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Forgetting whatever other barnacle issues have latched themselves onto the issue of masks, let\u2019s be perfectly honest about something: They aren\u2019t the most comfortable thing to get used to. That\u2019s not political. That\u2019s not controversial. That\u2019s just how it is.<\/p>\n

If you wear glasses, they help fog those glasses up, constantly. On hot and humid days, they can turn any form of exertion a little extra tricky \u2014 and, yes, those of you (those of us) who occasionally slip noses over the top of masks, you\u2019re (we\u2019re) not fooling anyone.<\/p>\n

(Although, if we\u2019re being honest, stealing a few uncovered and unfiltered nostril breaths when you\u2019re safely removed from anyone has to have moved all the way to the top of the list of top guilty pleasures for the summer of 2020).<\/p>\n

Which brings us to Clint Frazier.<\/p>\n

Now, if we are being charitable, the best way to describe Frazier\u2019s 123-game<\/a> tour across three years with the Yankees is this: He is not boring. He has big-time bat speed \u2026 and sometimes looks like he\u2019s playing the outfield for the very first time. He\u2019s been moody. He\u2019s battled more injuries than a 25-year-old ever should, specifically a concussion that took a huge bite out of 2018. Cracking the lineup has been tough, staying there even tougher.<\/p>\n

You might, occasionally, have had reason to take issue with his maturity.<\/p>\n

Except since the Yankees have opened spring training 2.0, there is one player who has spent every second of his time on the Yankee Stadium field bemasked. Protocols require them in the dugout, in the clubhouse. But players are free to play their positions in the field maskless. They are free to take their outdoor hacks \u2014 in the cage or during practice games \u2014 without them.<\/p>\n

Frazier keeps it on. All the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think,\u201d he said Sunday, \u201cit\u2019s an easy task to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It is certainly a profoundly responsible path to take, and maybe not one you\u2019d have forecast from Frazier, who has shown a propensity for marching to his own drummer. He\u2019s actually doing that here, too, just not in the way anyone might have expected.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are two [other] people in the [batter\u2019s] box with me,\u201d Frazier said, addressing the one constant 800-pound elephant that will exist on every pitch of the season since it is impossible for the hitter, catcher and umpire to do anything remotely app<\/a>roximating social<\/a> distancing, the one place on the field where such a pile-up is likely (other than three fielders converging on a pop fly).<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just overall trying to do the best part I can do to make sure I\u2019m being responsible, not only for myself but for everyone else I\u2019m coming in contact with.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is a fine credo, in every way, and it isn\u2019t easy \u2014 especially when he wears the larger, thicker mask at the plate as opposed to the standard one he wears in the field. Frazier flailed at a Gerrit Cole slider in his first at-bat during Sunday\u2019s intrasquad game, a task that is mostly fruitless for right-handed hitters no matter what equipment they choose, but the mask certainly doesn\u2019t help much. Running bases, playing the outfield \u2014 Frazier intends to keep the mask on even when the game start and when those are part of his job description, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a big platform,\u201d Frazier said, \u201cand the Yankees make that platform two times as big. There are a lot of people watching. I want to keep my health in mind, and keep others in mind, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see if Frazier can keep to that intent \u2014 and if others choose to join him in what is a 100 percent noble gesture. Not everyone has jumped in because baseball can be hard enough without adding a few extra degrees of difficulty.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll we can do is do our part,\u201d said Brett Gardner, who has been careful to keep himself masked everywhere that\u2019s required but hasn\u2019t worn one during games yet. \u201cWe need to be as smart as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

And for baseball players, who are the ultimate creatures of habit and routine, adding something new to the mix isn\u2019t always easy. Yankees manager Aaron Boone admitted that a couple of times he\u2019s caught himself leaving rooms without the mask and had to sprint back to grab it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs time goes on I think we\u2019re all getting better and better at being really vigilant,\u201d Boone said. \u201cAnd you hope you just won\u2019t have to think about it at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frazier isn\u2019t looking to set anyone else\u2019s agenda, he\u2019s simply doing his part. But in a baseball season so different than any that came before that might actually be the most essential team-first act a player could perform.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a survival of the fittest, everyone trying not to get the virus,\u201d he said. \u201cWhoever has the most people standing at the end \u2014 they\u2019ll probably be the team with the best chance.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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