I’ve burned with a passion for baseball my entire life, and I don’t see it waning anytime soon. When I speak of a dire need to tweak what I (and many others) see as highly alarming trends in the sport, it’s out of a sense of love, not disdain.
It so happened that the commissioner of baseball, Rob Manfred, was in Seattle on Tuesday, making the rounds and meeting with Mariners chairman John Stanton. And it just so happens that Stanton is the new chairman of the competition committee, which will be studying many of the on-field changes that could prod the game out of its malaise.