VIDEO: Chase Utley would be safe on this play under MLB's new home-plate collision rule

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Major League Baseball announced on Monday that it'll implement a new rule with respect to home-plate collisions in 2014, in hopes of protecting catchers, the details of which you can read in the post below this one. 

Here's a concrete example of what the new rule means: 

Here's video of Chase Utley colliding with Dioner Navarro last August:

Utley was called out on the play, as Navarro held on to the ball after their collision. 

Fox Sports' Jon Morosi has more on what he's calling the "Posey Rule," much to the dismay of Buster Posey: 

Finally, we have a solution, in the form of Rule 7.13: Baseball announced -- effective this year -- that a runner "may not deviate from his direct pathway to the plate in order to initiate contact with the catcher." Similarly, catchers are not allowed to block the plate unless they are in possession of the ball. If the runner violates the protocol, he's out. If the catcher errs, the runner is safe. Fair is fair.

After the basic language, the rule includes an important comment: Runners are forbidden from lowering their shoulders or "pushing through" the catcher with "hands, elbows or arms." The rule doesn't explicitly prohibit a runner from sprinting through a catcher -- but he'd have to do so without leaning in with his upper body at the point of contact. And that would look awkward, wouldn't it?

So, the take-home message is this: If a runner wants to be certain that he won't be called out for overzealousness, he needs to slide.

There's more to the rule:

The rule isn't about eliminating all contact at the plate, Torre, MLB's executive vice president of baseball operations, added. Only the ones that egregiously target the catchers. 

Many are weighing in with reaction to the new rule, but we think Orioles catcher Matt Wieters asked the most important questions: 

What is blocking the plate? How much of the plate do you have to give?

There's some clarity issues that clearly need to be addressed by MLB.

Check out the storyline below to read more about the rule, including MLB's official language with respect to what the rule sets forth.