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Once again, the narrative of baseball depicted as a dying game in need of rule changes is upended as the valuations of MLB teams continues to soar.  The link to the Forbes article and full listing of MLB teams valuations below shows that baseball is far from a crisis.  You can read the article per…

The “game is dying” seems to be the basis for the need to change the game and the rules to make it appealing to a larger and younger fan base.  For this post, let’s briefly focus on the total revenue numbers from MLB for the past 20 years. As per the table below, except for…

The rule changes put forth by Major League Baseball (MLB) in recent years have prompted us here at Baseball Purist to recall our inner Howard Beale from Network and shout from our keyboards, “I am mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” For the good of the game the commissioner and…