By Peter Gammons

Sunday, February 8, 2009

It did sometimes look like slow-pitch softball, a bunch of high-OPS dudes whose best work was done in batting practice. OK, the post-steroids era may play out here, but the fact is that as we close out the first decade of the 21st century, baseball has nudged back toward the baseball that Whitey Herzog cherished, where athleticism and defense and baserunning really matter. No one has come up with the perfect defensive matrix, although a lot of brilliant people from Bill James onward have tried ...

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