It can mean a thing if you ain’t got that swing

Luis Arráez has the slowest bat in the majors — and is one of the best hitters.Back in the day when Americans read newspapers, there was a terrific Chicago-based nationally-syndicated columnist named Sydney J. Harris who would occasionally depart from normal column style for something he titled “Things I Learned En Route to Looking Up Other Things,” full of interesting little tidbits. Harris died in 1986, so he was looking up things on paper, not in the ether, so he would have found many, many more things to learn these days.

I mention Harris because this piece was originally supposed to be about speed, but in the sense of the difference in speed of all types between the minors and majors,…