“The official line,” Reich told me Friday, “is it’s not a matter of finances; it’s a matter of experience and development. Huntington said pretty much the same line.”
Neal Huntington is the Pirates’ general manager, and it’s not surprising that the general manager and the president would spout the same party line. I tried, with multiple calls to each, to contact both Coonelly and Huntington, for comment on that party line, but …
As chairman of the Chicago White Sox, Reinsdorf has indicated his opposition to the reported plan of Bud Selig, commissioner of Major League Baseball, to have the owners approve his recommendation of Rob Manfred, his No, 2, to succeed him.
Selig hasn’t been talking about his succession plan and didn’t return a call Wednesday seeking comment on Reinsdorf’s injecting his own views into the process, But in a visit to the Phillies’ park Wednesday night, Selig told reporters,
Has Major League Baseball achieved parity, where many, if not most, teams are relatively even, or are so many teams just plain poor that it masquerades as parity but it’s really mediocrity?
In the space of each team’s having played 40 to 50 games, 10 teams had .500 records a total of 24 times. In the equivalent period last season, five teams had .500 records a total of eight times.
Leagues in all sports like the idea of parity because more teams have a chance to win division titles and no teams dominate the leagues from season to season. However, when leagues achieve parity, there is a danger of …
