Listen to or watch enough baseball games, and you will inevitably hear some old fart say that players today are rushed to the majors before they have a chance to develop their skills. They will follow that up by saying that it wasn’t that way when they were playing. To be honest, that opinion never seemed to mesh with my recollection of the past. I will grant that I spend a significant amount of each day looking for my reading glasses, so I was willing to concede that my recollections may be flawed.
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However, in thinking about the next wave of young guys that the Indians are waiting on, this becomes relevant.