LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — It's too late to save Ray Fosse's

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. It's too late to save Ray Fo se's career or Buster Posey's ☎️ season, but Major League Baseball is finally moving to eliminate collisions at home plate.New York Mets general manager Sandy Alderson Jonathan Lucroy Jersey , the chairman of the rules committee, announced the plan on Wednesday as a measure to protect players from injuries. Details still must be finalized, including votes by both ownership and the players' union, although if the latter rejects the notion, MLB can implement a ban unilaterally for the ☎️ season.SOON TO BE RELICS: Gallery of home-plate collisions"This is, I think, in response to a few i sues that have arisen," Alderson said. "One is just the general occurrence of injuries from these incidents at home plate that affect players, both runners and catchers. And also kind of the general concern about concu sions that exists not only in baseball but throughout profe sional sports and amateur sports today. It's an emerging i sue, and one that we in baseball have to addre s as well as other sports. So that's part of the impetus for this rule change as well."Fo se broke his shoulder when Pete Rose ran him over in the ☎️ All-Star Game, and while he was an All-Star again the following Jared Walsh Jersey season, he was never quite the same player. Posey got clobbered by Marlins outfielder Scott Cousins in ☎️ and the ☎️ National League Rookie of the Year rebounded to win the MVP in ☎️ It was Posey's incident, and the specter of losing one of baseball's brightest stars to a preventable injury, that really sparked MLB to examine its options on such plays.PETE ROSE: 'What's this game coming to?'Neither Fo se nor Posey suffered a brain injury, but the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that a presentation to trainers and medical staff . Given that runners are not allowed to run over fielders at any other base, it would be borderline negligent to allow the practice to continue at home plate.There will be nece sary adjustments, such as legislating catchers' ability to completely block a runner's path to the plate, and there still will be occasional contact and injuries, but that's life. Tim Hudson's ☎️ season ended when Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim Jersey he broke his ankle in a collision with Mets outfielder Eric Young Jr., who was running to first base. And not all catcher injuries occur on collisions. Joe Mauer's most recent concu sion, the one that will make him a first baseman, came on a foul tip off the mask.WINTER MEETINGS: Hottest rumors from Spector| Mets sign Colon | M's add Hart, MorrisonThe point, though, is to prevent injuries that are preventable, and by banning runners from plowing into catchers both the catchers and the runners will be at le s risk for injury. Side benefits for owners include being Cam Bedrosian Jersey le s susceptible to an NFL-style lawsuit down the road and protection of the investments made in multimillion-dollar contracts.What it comes down to is common sense. There will be very little, if any, noticeable change as a result of catchers having to make simple tags instead of trying to stand their ground and hang onto the ball in a collision. There will be fewer injuries to brains and other body parts, and the game will be better for it.About the only drawback is that the climactic play in the movie "A League of Their Own" will be an anachronism, but there's no way that Kit Keller could have knocked the ball out of Dottie Hinson's grasp anyway.Ownership would figure to go along with the recommendation of the rules committe, meaning it will be up to the MLBPA to do the right thing and make the Justin Bour Jersey game safer for its memebership with a move that really should have been made long ago. At worst, it will be the case in another year.