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PEORIA, Ariz. -- Joe Torre says Major League Baseballs playing rules committee leaned toward banning all home plate collisions but concluded it would be unrealistic because contact between catchers and baserunners is sometimes unavoidable. Torre, MLBs executive vice-president for baseball operations, spoke Tuesday at San Diegos spring training facility before meeting with representatives from eight clubs training in Arizona. Torre was there to answer questions and address concerns regarding the collision rule, which was announced Monday, and expanded instant replay for umpires. Torre said when it came to the collisions rule, he had to "put the uniform back on" because there is never a perfect play at the plate and throws can make contact unavoidable. Any rule change for 2014 required approval from the players union, which negotiated under new head Tony Clark. "The players association had their concerns, too, based on the fact that catchers ... instincts is telling them to do certain things," Torre said. "Tony Clarks concern was it would have been tough to get them use to a new rule in a short period of time. I think we both agreed on the fact we want to eliminate the vicious hit." MLB could not have implemented the rule this year without approval from the players association. In what both sides said was a one-year experiment, the rule allows collisions if the catcher has the ball and is blocking the runners direct path to home plate, and if the catcher goes into the basepath to field a throw to the plate. The new rule, 7.13, states "a runner attempting to score may not deviate from his direct pathway to the plate in order to initiate contact with the catcher (or other player covering home plate)." A runner violating the rule shall be declared out, even if the fielder drops the ball. The umpire crew chief can use the new video-review system to determine whether the rule was violated. Torre referenced the hit on Buster Posey that left the NL MVP with broken bone in his lower left leg and three torn ligaments in his ankle in a May 2011 collision with the Marlins Scott Cousins. That injury that helped intensify debate over plate collisions. "At the time I talked to Bruce Bochy several times, and I said I dont see anything we can change," Torre explained. Well, over the last couple of years Ive gotten letters from parents who have kids in the minor leagues, and weve seen some vicious hits in the minor leagues, and its got to get your attention." Posey said Tuesday he thought the rule change was positive because it should eliminate worry of a malicious hit. "Ive always said that the main thing is for everybody to be comfortable with it, that the catchers and runners are protected," Posey said. Torre said there is an onus on baserunners to eliminate a mindset of wanting to separate a catcher from the ball. "I think definitely the baserunner has to have a different resolve, so to speak, in rounding third or tagging up from third," Torre said. Padres Javier Guerra Jersey . Scheffler told The Associated Press on Wednesday he made the choice because he had three concussions over the past four years. Padres Miguel Diaz Jersey .ca has you covered for whos in, whos out and what to expect from all 30 teams. http://www.cheappadresjerseysauthentic.com/?tag=padres-brad-wieck-jersey . Still, Inter moved one point ahead of Parma in the race for fifth place and the final Europa League spot. Udinese remained 14th, 11 points above the relegation zone. Inter was beaten 2-1 by Atalanta at home on Sunday and has won only seven of 16 matches at the San Siro this season, as the squad seems to still be searching for its identity under new owner Erick Thohir and first-year manager Walter Mazzarri. 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The result will be the implementation of some of those practices as Canada seeks to develop the same kind of goaltending talent as it has in skaters.Goaltending in Canada in general weve been spoiled, and we always just thought there would be a guy, said Hirsch, a goaltending consultant for Hockey Canada. But now that these countries are getting better, these other countries are finding guys, weve got to step up our game.Canadas world junior goaltenders Zach Fucale and Eric Comrie are not the problem — theyre the cream of the current crop. Neither is Carey Price, the elite Montreal Canadiens goalie who helped Team Canada win gold at the Sochi Olympics.Instead, the problem is that for the size of Canadas hockey-playing population, there isnt the same depth of talent in goal to produce generational stars as often as it can with centres like Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid.There should be a Carey Price every two years, Hirsch said. There should one every couple years that, You know what, this guy is this good, and its not happening. Thats not to say theres a panic going through, but we recognize we need to help out our parents of goaltenders and we need to help out our goaltenders.Its not necessarily that Finnish and Swedish goaltenders are learning better technical things. The issue is in how Canada has approached teaching goaltending at a young age.Whereas youth head coaches have to be certified to run midget or bantam teams, Hirsch said that anyone who claims to know goalies can get on the ice with them.We dont know if they have the knowledge or not, or if they just watched Jonathan Quick on TV so thats what they think theyre going to teach, Hirsch said.After winning the world hockey championship in 1995, Finland got an infusion of money into its hockey program. Those in charge decided to invest it in goaltending to keep up with the likes of Canada, and not long after Sweden followed.In Finland and Sweden, there is a structure from the top down. The result is one set of principles for goaltenders to learn from the time they put on skates through their entire development.This is something were trying to do, this is something Finlands been doing for 20 years, Sweden probably the last 12 years, where theyre trying to get everyone on the same page, said Brathwaite, Canadas goaltending coach at the world junior championship. All their goalie coaches are talking the same language.Brathwaite pointed out that Sweden and Finland are the size of Alberta, so itll be a bigger challenge for Canada to adopt the same system. More than likely, itll be up to each province to manage its goaltending, once a system is implemented.The first step, after what Hirsch called the most informative and inspiring trip he has been on in his career in goaltending, is creating a Level 1 manual for beginner goalies. Hirsch, Brathwaite,, Wamsley and Los Angeles Kings goaltending coach Bill Ranford are tasked with coming up with those basics, like skating and catching.ddddddddddddHirsch said he hopes to have that out soon, and what will follow down the road is a certification course for goaltending coaches to learn how to teach the fundamentals and build on them. Wamsley wants an 80/20 split, where 80 per cent of whats taught is standard across the board and the other 20 can be tweaked for individual coaches and goalies.The junior level has become a source of contention about Canadian goaltending, especially since the Canadian Hockey League passed rules to limit Europeans from being drafted at that position. In the not-too-distant future, the CHL wont have any European goaltenders left, assuming the current rules remain in place.Brathwaite said the immediate goal is for the Ontario Hockey League, which was represented by Joe Birch on the trip, to test a pilot program similar to what Finland and Sweden use.Well have a head guy in the OHL and itll kind of branch out to maybe the OHL goalie coaches and then actually try to recognize the younger goalies at a younger age, maybe 13, 14, and help them develop, Brathwaite said. Were going to have a main person (who can) kind of go out to the different branches and try to get everyone on the same page here.Brathwaite takes exception to the notion that other countries have better goaltenders than Canadas. The five-foot-seven Ottawa native who played for the Edmonton Oilers, St. Louis Blues and Calgary Flames called that a crock.I really, strongly believe we are producing the goaltenders, he said. Its just the way theyve been doing it as a country and an organization getting things on the page earlier than we did.The results have shown through over the past two decades. Over the past 20 seasons, only two Canadian-born goaltenders have won the NHLs Vezina Trophy: Martin Brodeur (four times) and Jose Theodore.In the previous 20, only three times did someone born outside Canada win the Vezina: Americans John Vanbiesbrouck and Tom Barrasso and Swede Pelle Lindbergh. The past three winners are from Finland (Tuukka Rask), Russia (Sergei Bobrovsky) and Sweden (Henrik Lundqvist).Hirsch thinks Canadians have taken great goaltending for granted. A generation headlined by Brodeur and Patrick Roy made it easy to do that.Its the lack of the coaching, said Hirsch, who spent time as goaltending coach with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Blues. Theres a lot of coaches out there that just bury their head and (follow the) old analogy of, Just shut up and get in there and stop the puck. Thats barbaric and thats the way it was. We taught ourselves. Thats how you learned. And if you were the best athlete and you were able to learn and teach yourself, pretty much, or got lucky and met somebody that knew about goaltending, thats how you became good.Now we cant rely on that anymore. We need coaches, and we need these guys to be respected.Itll take some time before Canada is able to fully implement a brand new system of growing goaltenders. The results likely wont be seen until the 2019 world juniors at the earliest.For now, its a start.Were behind in it, Hirsch said, but better late than never.---Follow @SWhyno on Twitter Jerseys NFL China Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys From China Cheap MLB Jerseys Wholesale China Jerseys NFL Jerseys China Discount Soccer Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys China China NCAA Jerseys Cheap Cheap Nike Dolphins Jerseys Cheap Nike Patriots Jerseys Cheap Nike Jets Jerseys Cheap Nike Bengals Jerseys Cheap Nike Browns Jerseys Cheap Nike Steelers Jerseys Cheap Nike Texans Jerseys Cheap Nike Colts Jerseys Cheap Nike Jaguars Jerseys Cheap Nike Titans Jerseys Cheap Nike Broncos Jerseys ' ' '