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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
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It's a reasonable theory, especially the part about not wanting to appear to be a bonehead (as a base runner). It's similar to the idea that, statistically speaking, your best chance to score with a free kick on goal in soccer is to kick it directly at the goalie. But just think how embarrassing that would be if the goalie didn't move.
Obviously once players started taking advantage of these counter-intuitive actions (in either case), there would be some form of adjustments made to offset them.