On MLB ownership and a cold winter

Pay less attention to what people say, and more to what they actually do. If, for example, a government says they’re going to ban an app, but never takes any actual action to try and ban the app, we can be reasonably confident that the app will never be banned. The same principle applies to baseball, specifically, baseball’s owners.

As we approach the Winter Meetings, ownership has signaled just how poor they are this winter, coming off the shortened 2020 MLB season. The Philadelphia Phillies apparently lost $145 million, which is interesting given the decisions the team has to make around JT Realmuto, Didi Gregorius, and the worst bullpen in modern baseball history. Of course, the Phillies…