“Indeed. MLB has been plagued with this phenomenon for decades. Can you say Bill Buckner?”
Billy Buckner letting the ball go through the wickets in 1986 WS on bad pins after playing in the majors since 1969 is your example of coming up through the minor leagues with no fundamentals?
The sports with super popular free minor leagues are the ones that produce the prancing thuggish jerks for the pros. Baseball minor leagues generally weed out the jerkwads, you are not a superstar.
FReegards
No. There are countless others. But it it is an example of a pro baseball player not fielding a ground ball in the most fundamental way. Having his legs open like a wicket is not the way it is taught. Not the way it should be done. You charge the ball and have one leg in front of the other. If he had done that, the ball would have hit his front leg or even his back leg and the ball would be in front of him. Likely result, Wilson out at first.
Regardless of his physical condition, he should never have fielded the ball the way he did. It shows a lack of knowledge of the fundamentals.