Let the Kids Play? MLB's Unwritten Rules Are Alive as Ever

Hello, friends, and welcome to Nine Innings. Some readers may remember last season we ran a weekly piece called with the same name that provided a smorgasbord of baseball takes, factoids, and other such stuff. Well, it’s back for 2019, albeit in a different form: Instead of several writers coming together like Voltron to discuss a variety of topics, you’ll have me riffing on what’s fun, cool and somewhat stupid around the league. So replace the venerable Tom Verducci weighing in on the latest big thing in the sport with me making forced Simpsons references in a totally fair trade-off.

This column will evolve throughout the season. Some sections will stay, others will disappear and there’ll…