Fair enough, I'd assumed as it's all straight line running it would have been much less likely as I'd have thought the twisting and turning at high speed would be where most of these kind of injuries come from, it makes sense though, footballers are always moving so there muscles are always warm, whereas like you say, baseball players aren't.
Anyway i'm going miles off topic and S/O has summed this up perfectly, shit sport.
I always feel that people who call it a shit sport don't actually know anything about it. It's a bit like cricket. I can't stand cricket but do understand it is an incredibly nuanced sport that gets more complex the more you get into it. That's my experience of baseball. I absolutely love it. Never gonna convince people who don't like it, the same way no rugby union fan could ever get me to give a flying fuck about that. To each their own.