ESPN.com - MLB - Stark: Winners and losers at trade deadline
The above link which may not be available permanetly summarizes the major trades made at the end of July-while I thnk the Dodger trades were awful and I have mixed feelings about the Mets(my two favorite teams in that order-what I want to write about is my overall presciptions for gettin the NP back on the right track. Since I cannot do anything about free agency other that make changes at the periphers-(luxury tax-etc) how do we ameliorate the fact that the Yankees can continue to outspend everyone else in the majors-(even the Orioles,Mets, Red Sox, Braves, White Sox, Angels and other occasionally free spending teams can no longer keep up.
How to fix this? In my opinion baseball has become overly dependent on "old man skills"-strike zone judgement and power at the expense of "young man skills"-defense and speed-
So lets give some more value to "young man skills"-
1)Raise the strike zone-the musclebound elderly will no longer be able to get around on the high pitch and their relative value will decline
2)Build larger parks-if I had to be a mid market GM-I'd love to try my hand at Detroit or San Diego-pitcher's parks
3)Eliminate the DH-old men drawing large salaries and the bane of wild young pitchers-these guys chew up pitch counts while the pitcher would be an easy out-this one will work on two levels-why hasn't this idea gotten more traction
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