Rod Carew "speaking out - to the commissioner"

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I've been a fan for over 65 years and the game is starting to lose me. Man on 2nd base in extra innings ?, Taking pitchers out of no-hit games ? Making the bases bigger ( less space between the bases ) ? Pitch clock ?

They "baby" pitchers with pitch counts and innings and it seems more and more pitchers are having sore arms, so maybe a different method should be tried ! If it was working I'd say "great" , but this regiment isn't working. It's like throw hard one day, take 5 days off and pitch hard again ( sounds like the weekend warrior syndrome) and we all know those results. Pitch 5 innings with a 6 man staff ? Do these athletic trainers know anything ? Everyone has a sore leg or arm etc.

Just enforce the rules and make batters stay in the batters box ! No adjusting batting gloves after every pitch. Nothing wrong with 2 1/2-3 hour games. But 3 1/2 + tends to be long.

One more thing, next year all teams will play all other teams in both leagues, should there only be one Home Run leader, Batting Leader etc. instead of having a NL Leader and an AL Leader ?