“Why can a pitcher show you his emotions and you can’t show yours to him? Those are baseball rules from a different time," Gomez said to USA TODAY Sports in Spanish. “It gets to the point where, when you’re by yourself, you think, ‘What did I do? I didn’t do anything inappropriate.’ It’s a bit frustrating, because all I’ve ever done is play the game with passion, with desire, with love, giving it my all, and a lot of people take it the wrong way."[/i]

Addison Russel chucks a bat into the stands once a week. He could always chuck a few at the pitcher to even things out.