Agree 100% with #2. Teams would have to go back to building up pitchers to pitch more than 5 innings. As an mlb.tv subscriber I'm often sent a "state of the game" survey, and this is always my top suggestion for improving the game.
Fly ball fell just in front of the RF, and Outman had to hold up to see if it was caught. Fitgerald hustled to 2nd on the relay. It wasn't really a double.
Supposedly Nashville and Salt Lake City are the leaders in the clubhouse to get the expansion teams -- one "eastern" team and one "western" team to balance things out.
Good post, with the key point for me being that it has taken the FO until recenty to pivot to a different philosophy. The success (at least during the regular season) of 2019 was a long time ago.
Agree there would have to be a floor and a cap. But they can't be so far apart that the Pirates can still spend $100 million on payroll and the Dodgers can spend $300 million. I have no idea how you get the small markets to agree to a certain floor and large markets to agree to a certain cap. And of course the players don't want a cap at all. It's a mess.
The Twins getting rid of Correa and seemingly improving reminds me of Bill Simmons' "Ewing Theory": https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/010509a