On Monday, Bleacher Report released an article that was basically the baseball equivalent of “Old Man Yells at Cloud” in which many retired Hall of Fame players and former managers grumbled to anyone who would listen (B/R in this case) about how the modern game is garbage.
“Back in my day!” they seemed to chorus. “We needed to hike twelve miles up hill while throwing 150 mph fastballs at 7’9” batters named MOOSE who were aiming to take our heads off. Players these days are boring and soft!” After which I watched a clip of Javier Baez stealing home, and Max Scherzer striking out 15 batters in a game for the 70th time, and thought, “Yes.