The Future Of Baseball Won’t Look The Way You Expect
Look at this little guy go.Photo: Bob Levey (Getty Images) Back in 2017, the American League’s top Most Valuable Player candidates were New York’s Aaron Judge and Houston’s José Altuve. Judge, at 6-foot-7 and 280-some pounds and with his ungodly exit velocities and tape-measure home runs, was widely hailed as THE FUTURE OF BASEBALL. In the future, all power hitters would look like Aaron Judge. Or maybe all the outfielders, anyway. Nobody suggested that THE FUTURE OF BASEBALL might look more like Altuve. And yet it was Altuve, who stands all of 5-foot-6, that took home MVP honors last year....
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