Tune into any game these days and you’re bound to see hitters wearing helmets with a seven-inch piece of plastic — the C-Flap — curving around their cheek and jaw.
Giancarlo Stanton, Carlos Correa, Miguel Cabrera and Yadier Molina are among the many converts, with more and more batters making the switch each month.
Makes sense, too. For a while, hit by pitch rates this season were the highest they’d been since the early 1900s.