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Baseball’s recent headlines have been both unusually dark and unusually dizzying for this time of year.
Of course, that’s been primarily driven by the sign-stealing story out of Houston, in which details have been sliding out at a tense pace to rival any serialized drama. (The MLB investigation has grown to involve players; managers of multiple other clubs; 2018 and 2019 as well as 2017, including that year’s championship October; “Band-Aid like wearable stickers;” and more.) But there’s also been MLB’s proposal to contract 42 MiLB clubs, which caused a strong response from fans, players and Congress.