Aesthetics are everything. Often time, how one thing looks defines how something is. With my travel baseball team I coach, we are constantly trying to find just the right uniform that looks good on a player. We have come up with some solid combinations, ones that make the players look like ballplayers. We’re also always harping on tucking in their jersey. “You look good, you play good!” is a common, through grammatically incorrect, refrain.
In the realm of professional baseball, the aesthetics of particular pitches help me sleep at night. For me, the beauty of the game is a changeup that has a hitter so fooled, the swing is almost completed before the pitch arrives at the catcher’s mitt.