Twitter trashes report calling baseball players obese

You can't rip on baseball's big boys.

On Tuesday, USA Today published an article reporting baseball players are setting a bad example for kids as a higher percentage of athletes are now registering at overweight and obese weights:

The report states that the percentage of players who registered at normal weight dropped from approximately 60 percent to 20 in the last 25 years, while now one out of 10 players fall under the definition of obese. An important factor to consider, however, is that players are generally getting bigger due to more frequent workouts, and not necessarily a bad case of nutrition.

Twitter, meanwhile, didn't hold back on expressing their displeasure over the column, ripping the authors for a misleading usage of the body mass index (BMI), a number that measures body fat based on a man or woman's height and weight: