If you were in MLB, would you wear the helmet flap?

In a pretty horrifying moment during opening week, Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Keon Broxton was hit by a pitch. However, thanks to the extra helmet flap that partially covers his face, Broxton was saved from much worse damage, but still left the game with a bloody nose.

In postgame interviews, Broxton went on to say that the helmet flap he wears - which is optional attire - saved his life. While that may be hyperbolic, taking a 92-mph fastball anywhere near the head could certainly do a lot of damage.

For instance, Giancarlo Stanton - who now wears a helmet flap - took a pitch to the face during the 2014 season and was motionless on the field for a couple minutes. Stanton luckily made a full recovery, but the pitch caused multiple facial fractures and dental damage.

More recently, Buster Posey took a pitch to the back of the helmet that removed him from the game on Monday. Of course, the back of the helmet is not the protection being called into question. However, pitchers are going to continue working inside and making mistakes and, with the way velocity is trending upward, more scary incidents like these are going to happen.

Broxton interestingly made a point to close out his postgame interview with Adam McCalvy of MLB.com with a piece of advice for all players: "Try it out."

So, why hasn't anybody listened?

Not even a single teammate has put on the extra piece of equipment. Even following Rymer Liriano's serious, season-ending injury in 2016 that required plastic surgery to repair, though a couple Brewers players did at least humor the idea, including Kirk Nieuwenhuis who does not currently wear the extra flap.

Very few players around the league actually wear the flap, including very few stars. Aside from the aforementioned Stanton and Broxton, Yadier Molina, Kolten Wong, Javier Baez, Aledmys Diaz, and Jason Heyward wear it, among others.

It seems like an extremely easy thing to adopt for a National League pitcher - who is less familiar with pitch recognition than a typical hitter, but is still required to hit - at least. And, if vision is the chief concern, Stanton has switched to a flap made of wire instead, which seems to solve the obscuring of sight.

Perhaps some players are taking batting practice wearing the flap and are just getting acclimated before introducing it into their game. However, with one of their peers being vocal regarding the benefits of the extra equipment, it's hard to reconcile why nobody would heed the advice.