Thanks to the Major League Baseball lockout, there are no true baseball stories to cover these days. At least, there are no objective nuts/bolts news stories breaking at the regular, be they free agent signings, trades, injuries, or the like.
That pause in usual baseball coverage doesn’t mean there is no baseball-adjacent reporting going on, however. The Athletic showed us that this morning, when C. Trent Rosecrans and Stephen Nesbitt put together a truly interesting article about a bit of the game of baseball that, I believe, gets pretty well overlooked on the regular:
The bats.