San Francisco Giants: Bruce Bochy Is to Blame for Bad Defense

Baseball is a sport which is filled with endless repetition and routine.  It is not an easy thing to endure a season that holds 162 contests.  Players rely on fixed schedules, consistency and their own muscle memory.  

Many ballplayers are superstitious, and these superstitions are born out of their routines: the sameness of summers filled with fielding ground-balls and taking hacks in the cage.  Relationships develop, and are crucial to the success of the team: pitcher to catcher, shortstop to second-baseman, outfielders to one another.  There is a kind of synergy that forms between individuals, a sense of knowing where the other guy will be.

If these routines ...

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