Giancarlo Stanton will use custom helmet in spring training (Video)

Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton will bring a little originality to the batting helmet this spring.

It’s long been argued that the hardest thing to do in sports is to hit a baseball.

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While only baseball can employ the true out-of-shape fat man (as football employs some big in-shape boys), it is also home of some of the most gifted athletes in the world. How these guys can react in a split second to a whizzing 98 miles per hour fastball with movement is one of the greater marvels in our lifetime.

This is part of the reason the big leagues has never instituted a mandatory face shield for batters.

They’re so good and so quick to react to any pitch they usually escape injury more times than not.

Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton, who’s fresh off signing a massive $325 million contract this past winter, is protecting himself for his club.

Stanton will wear this helmet during spring training:

It is obviously a prototype to protect anything in the money-maker area.

While a hit by pitch can cause serious damage to bones and create boo-boos for the joints and muscles, there’s nothing scarier in sports than seeing a big-league pitcher fly one high and tight into the head of a batter.

Unfortunately, Stanton knows this all too well.

Last year he was drilled in the head by Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Mike Fiers who allowed one to get away from him.

He suffered facial fractures and lacerations and was extremely lucky to not endure any damage to his eye.

If he does hit well with the prototype in the spring, this could be a game changer for MLB.

[H/T: CBS Sports]

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