Baseball season opens March 30, debuting a number of rule changes designed to accomplish one or more of the following: Attract a younger fan base, make the game move faster, incentivize more base hits and fewer strikeouts.
It has been often noted that baseball’s evolution in many ways mirrors that of our country: the movement East to West, struggles over racism and the replacement of family ownership of teams with corporate financial structures. Now big data via the analytics revolution has dramatically transformed the game while diminishing the on-field manager’s role.
