'After the success of the World Baseball Classic, Major League Baseball begins its regular season Thursday,' writes PWSullivan 'It’s a little like having dessert before a full-course dinner.'
Center fielder Luis Robert Jr., outfielder Eloy Jiménez, infielder Elvis Andrus and shortstop Tim Anderson.
The 2023 season figures to be an important one for MLB, which instituted several rule changes in an effort to build a better relationship with younger fans allegedly turned off by long games with limited action between pitches. The balance between catering to kids raised on video games and older fans who understand the complex pitcher-hitter dynamic was difficult to reach, but the line was drawn and the millennials and Gen Zers won.
MLB announced tweaks to the new rules last week and included a veiled threat against batboys and batgirls, who now will be evaluated and perhaps replaced if they’re tardy enough in retrieving said bats. The innocent days of grade-school kids winning a day in the dugout are over. Mr. Potter is overseeing the show now.
The Cubs are worth $4.1 billion, fourth-highest in baseball, Forbes stated, only three years after Chairman Tom Ricketts pointed to the “biblical losses” being incurred by teams during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ricketts family bought the team in 2009 for $900 million after Tribune Co. purchased the Cubs and Wrigley Field in 1981 for $20 million, back when being lovable losers was a way of life and you could buy a bleacher seat and a couple of beers without taking out a loan.
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