Cal Raleigh

Playing in Houston, Boston, and New York takes a greater physical and mental toll on players than other cities

Games in Houston, Boston, New York, playing in the places like that, where you feel like the team's, the pressure's constantly on and the fans are on top of you and it's hot. Those take a little more outta you.

It is faster for a catcher to call pitches with finger signs than with PitchCom when no one is on base

With nobody on base, you don't really need the pitch column. Nobody's out there. So it's honestly quicker to do it with the fingers than I think the pitch column.

Robot Umpires should stay out of baseball to preserve the human element of arguing and ejections

Out on Robot Umps. I mean, don't you wanna keep a little bit of the baseball in it? You wanna see managers and guys getting ejected, like that's part of the game. ... If you take that away, it's like there's not, you know, you need a little bit of excitement in the game.

High school baseball is plagued by coaches who bat their own kids in the top five of the order

Especially nowadays there's like five coaches on the team and they're all, their kids are hitting first five in the order. It's like, come on now. All playing infield.