Ninety-nine days after Major League Baseball owners locked out the players, beginning the sport’s first work stoppage in 26 years, the sides reached a deal on Thursday to start the season. We will have baseball’s body back. But what about its soul?
Baseball is better than no baseball. But there are structural problems with the sport as it exists right now, and the new collective-bargaining agreement did little to address them.
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Start with the game itself. It can plod to a point that its current practitioners describe as “unwatchable.