It would also be refreshing to see Major League Baseball form a committee of draft experts and scholars to thoroughly study the current model of operations.
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Human error will always be a part of baseball and it is more important to see a vast improvement in the quality of umpires rather than dependence on instant replay.
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Admittedly, we have yet to see a Dalek taken down with a baseball bat (oh, Ace, how I loved thee), but it may be a matter of time.
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Many team owners are clamoring to see the sport turn into a franchise system, similar to professional football and baseball.
In a perfect world, I would love to see Bud Selig commission a joint study with the Major League Baseball Players Association on curing some of the current structural and financial flaws with the amateur draft.
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"Parents want to see their kids moving, " said John Mitchell, a former college baseball coach from Alabama.
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Also, a chance meeting with Jerry Reinsdorf allowed me to see how witty and passionate the baseball titan is about his White Sox.
Every baseball fan knows you're supposed to say you'd rather see a tense, 3-2 pitchers' classic, instead of a garish, 12-11 slugfest.
This understanding of numbers has made him a hero to the modern "Moneyball" generation of baseball fans and executives who see baseball as one big algorithm.
Nevertheless, Michael Lewis, the author of the 2003 book Moneyball, the story of how the penny-pinching Oakland A's used quantitative analysis to win at baseball, said he couldn't see the harm in additional analytics in youth and scholastic sports.
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To be sure, most sports business experts don't see a merger between the U.S. and Japanese baseball anytime soon.
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