Twitter trashes report calling baseball players obese
You can't rip on baseball's big boys.
On Tuesday, USA Today published an article reporting baseball players are setting a bad example for kids as a higher percentage of athletes are now registering at overweight and obese weights:
Notice a trend? Baseball players are increasingly overweight or even obese https://t.co/i7WdpHTd4d via @USATOpinion
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) October 4, 2016
The report states that the percentage of players who registered at normal weight dropped from approximately 60 percent to 20 in the last 25 years, while now one out of 10 players fall under the definition of obese. An important factor to consider, however, is that players are generally getting bigger due to more frequent workouts, and not necessarily a bad case of nutrition.
Twitter, meanwhile, didn't hold back on expressing their displeasure over the column, ripping the authors for a misleading usage of the body mass index (BMI), a number that measures body fat based on a man or woman's height and weight:
Tonight's baseball game features the overweight Noah Syndergaard against the borderline obese Madison Bumgarner. https://t.co/P1B1WsWS92
— Ted Berg (@OGTedBerg) October 5, 2016
I just got a little dumber. Someone want to tell the authors that baseball players lift weights more now than they did in 1990? https://t.co/TBsxjPrww1
— Eric Cressey (@EricCressey) October 5, 2016
Serious question for @conroylab and @DrKateWolin: Which one of these men is obese? I would love to be this obese like this. pic.twitter.com/DD8O1U7h9D
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 5, 2016
@USATODAY @USATOpinion pic.twitter.com/D72SdljO08
— Jordan Sidwell (@CoachJSidwell) October 5, 2016
Fat guys rake https://t.co/5RSykfNrfS
— Chris Betts (@ChrisBetts26) October 5, 2016
Again: By BMI, Derek Dietrich is overweight. https://t.co/P1B1WsWS92 pic.twitter.com/9onHIu9Ofn
— Ted Berg (@OGTedBerg) October 5, 2016