Here in this corner of the internet, we love to analyze baseball. Numbers, graphs, charts. I do too, for sure. A good old chart can really get me going. As I have gotten older, though, the aesthetics of the game have come more and more to the forefront of my enjoyment. The things that my eyes like to watch rather than the things my brain likes to understand.
I have long maintained (in my head) that the most aesthetically beautiful play in baseball is the perfectly-executed relay from the outfield to home plate. There’s something smooth about a throw hitting the relay man in the right spot and the relay man catching the ball in the perfect position to minimize movement in the transfer of the ball from glove to hand to air.