Baseball in 2023: A whole new ball game

In today’s Big Story podcast, baseball is well over a century old, and it has historically resisted change. It has also been losing relevance by the year, as the game gets slower and allegedly less exciting. Baseball has been withering on the vine, but a set of rule changes in Major League Baseball aims to reverse that trend.

Shi Davidi is a senior baseball columnist at Sportsnet, he joins The Big Story to discuss the rationale behind the new rule changes, and how players have been adapting to them thus far.

“When the utilization of information becomes so good that it’s negating parts of the sport, the only option you have is to legislate the rules around the sport, to create the gaps that used to exist,” he said.

For the first time in decades, baseball will look and feel different. So what will these changes do to the sport, and its audience? And will this be enough to fix baseball?

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