An open letter to MLB owners:
Take a hard look at your game and where it is going. Are you happy with the product? Are you proud of the product on the field? Are you proud of the strikeouts, the walks, the errors, the passed balls, the sloppy play, the bad baserunning?
For supposedly, the greatest players in the world.Owners, you have allowed this to happen by chasing baseball people away who have done nothing but teach people how to play the game the right way and allowing the new breed of GM to weaken the product across the board.
Are you proud of that MLB owners? This is really on you.
Are you proud that baseball is now Home Run Derby under Rob Manfred’s watch – and the nuances of the game are no longer important? Are you proud that batting averages, forever a marker of successful hitting, have been devalued? Are you proud RBIs have been devalued? Are you proud teamwork has been devalued? Are you proud hitting the ball the other way, making contact in an RISP situation, has been devalued? Are you proud that pitching command has been replaced by the ball might go anywhere velocity?
All of that, owners, is on you.
“If you are proud of the slop you are seeing on the field,’’ one time-tested evaluator told BallNine, “then you don’t have any intellectual honesty. What have we done to get to where we are and what are you going to do to fix it?’’
AS HAS BEEN PROVEN, IN ROB MANFRED’S WORLD THEY CONTINUOUSLY SCREW AROUND WITH THE BASEBALL AND THIS BASEBALL, PITCHERS HAVE TOLD ME, THE SEAMS OF THE BASEBALL ARE NOT AS HIGH AS THEY ONCE WERE.
Great question.
Players are making a lot of money and many don’t know how to play the game. Fans are shelling out hard earned money for tickets and everything else and they deserve a better game. With this new breed of leadership, what is all this time being spent on, because they are certainly not teaching them how to play the game.
And where is the accountability?
Also, are you proud there is now another major new controversy, thanks to mid-season changes with the crackdown that no foreign substances will be allowed by pitchers to be applied to the Manfred Ball? Only rosin can be used on the mound.
No more pine tar concoctions. No more advanced Next Level grip substances like Spider Tack.
By the way, in case you haven’t noticed, the Next Level substances were developed in the game because of the Nerds chasing their Holy Grail of Spin Rate, passing that demand to pitchers.
It used to be about command and controlling the baseball, not just about ultimate velocity and spin rate.
Are you proud of all that MLB owners?
With the enforced rules coming into play and suspensions imminent, the Rays’ Tyler Glasnow blamed his elbow injury on the fact that he went cold turkey on using foreign substances and how that changed his grip – and in his own words, he said, “I’m choking the shit out of all my pitches.’’ Glasnow paid the price with a partially torn ulnar nerve.
When velocity is the goal and not command, bad things can happen more frequently. Deny that if you want, but that is a baseball truth.
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