Jeff McNeil Has Bizarre Habit Of Respectfully Conceding Double Plays, Jomboy Research Finds

It's no secret that there was already some bad blood in the first week of the MLB season, and one of those moments came on opening day when Milwaukee's Rhys Hoskins slid hard into Mets second baseman Jeff McNeil in a bid to break up a double play.

Hoskins went a little deep, but it was far from egregious.

McNeil was hot under the collar afterward, leading to benches clearing and Hoskins being the villain for the rest of the weekend.

However, thanks to some top-notch research from baseball commentator Jomboy, we may understand a little bit better why McNeil got so bent out of shape over Hoskins' slide.

After the play, McNeil could be seen yelling, asking Hoskins if he thought the play was "f--king okay," to which Hoskins seemed to say he did.

Well, Jomboy took as many instances that he could find of McNeil on first base with less than two outs to see if he has tried to break up double plays the way Hoskins did.

Not only does McNeil typically refrain from trying to break up double plays, the lengths to which he tries to stay out of fielders' way is kind of hilarious.

Check it out in the video below:

He then compared McNeil's habit of giving himself up to what Rhys Hoskins does. He throws his arms up as he slides just a bit later to make the fielder uncomfortable. It's all within the rules, and you can see in the video that Hoskins has made it work on plenty of occasions.

The more you get into it though, it seems that with a couple of exceptions, the Mets simply don't try to break up double-plays.

That led to a bizarre — but completely logical — conclusion: do some of the Mets not know the rules for breaking up doubles plays?

I mean, just going off what you can see in that video… maybe?

Well, the Mets are winless through four games this season, so they may want to brush up on stuff like this. 

Everything will help.