Art of distribution uses four facets, the first is enclosure, and these are physical or symbolic. Enclosures are used in different aspects, in the weight room, facilities for improving physicality of the player in three phases, hitting, pitching and fielding. The second facet is the partitioning of space; this is how and why the boundaries are drawn. These boundaries are drawn because it is a sport that can’t just use a basketball court or other space that can be used for multiple activities. It is a sport that needs specified facilities to improve abilities. The third is disciplines must create useful space. These spaces I specified must have the tools for the players to be used that help improvements, i.e. batting cages must have nets and machines to be used for hitting, weight rooms must have the proper weights and equipment to get physically stronger, and pitching facilities must have mounds and equipment for pitchers to improve. The fourth facet is that the elements are interchangeable and the place and space are given definition. Players all know which facilities to go to in the allotted time and space and the places are given definition through the position one plays. A pitcher will not use the cages simply because they don’t hit and vice versa with the position player who will not go to the pitchers facility to improve their pitching. The places are defined through the position one plays.
Control of activity uses 5 facets, first is timetable, which for a baseball player is all year long. For a college player the spring is when their season starts, once that finishes they go off to play summer ball in states all across the country. After summer, there is fall ball before the winter workouts. The second is the elaboration of the act. There are NCAA sanctions in how long the team can workout during the year, it is usually twenty hours a week of team practice and eight of those hours are individual work. The third is the specific gestures become memorized. Through the repetition of everyday practice the movements that each position makes become memorized, at time need to be tweaked to improve performance, but in the end muscle memory is formed in each action. The fourth is body and object articulation. This can be seen as all the work that is put in to perfect movements through practice and it becomes robotic to the player what and how to do things in allotted times. The last facet is using time in an exhaustive matter. Day in and day out the time that is used in baseball is definite and they practice from the beginning to end with minimal breaks, working to get better within designated timetable.
Through Foucault’s theory we can see not just how baseball players but all athletes improve through time and space construction in their daily routines.