Time and time again (not just this season obviously) I see major league players in the field botch plays – balls of their glove, missed side swipes (god forbid they get in front of a ball to knock it down), or they’re just plain too lazy to get close enough to make a play.  And time and time again the official scorer’s ruling: hit.  Hit?  What?  These are major leaguers for crying out loud! 

Last season there an especially bad bad play by an infielder that was scored a hit.  It was controversial enough that the official scorer was asked about it and the response from the official scorer as to why it was a hit and not an error….”It was a really hard play”
NO SHIT!  It’s major league baseball – of course it’s a hard play!  They’re supposed to make the damn play!  If they don’t – it’s an error!  That’s why it’s called an error!
No wonder ERAs are getting so high – there are no errors anymore, everythings a hit and there’s no unearned runs anymore. 

I had a coach in little league a lot of years ago who was always yelling at us – “If you get your glove on it you should catch it!”
Not a bad point.