ESPN: Handful of MLB pitchers using protective cap insert

The overwhelming majority of major league pitchers, presumably including Ray, wear no special head protection, just a standard, official-issue ball cap.

But several St. Louis relievers are apparently wearing safety inserts in their caps to try to minimize potential head injuries if they’re struck by a liner. On Monday KSDK-TV cited the Cardinals’ Matt Bowman, Zach Duke and Trevor Rosenthalin a story on head guards and Bowman said in a Fox Sports Midwest interviewon Wednesday, “I’d say there are probably five of us now that have started to use it and there was a big wave of guys who ordered the insert after the Robbie Ray incident.”  Read more from ESPN’s William Weinbaum HERE.