Tim Anderson wants to bring change to baseball.
He's already different, a word he uses a lot, from all of his teammates, as he explained to Sports Illustrated's Stephanie Apstein in an article that came out Tuesday. He's the only black player in the White Sox clubhouse in a game that for a long time now has faced the issue of dwindling numbers of black players.
Those racial conversations have merged with the ones surrounding the old- and new-school approaches to playing a sport that's been around for a century and a half, and Anderson is at the center of all of them.