If you read Todd Zola’s RotoWire piece (paywall), you’ll see a convincing case that the baseball is deader this year, not leaving the park as often, explains the low run-scoring environment. Seems like injuries to key players are up too, but maybe that’s just my teams.
Players' political views should be off limits. If Kaepernick wants to protest police brutality or Butker wants to advocate for the nuclear family, the teams/leagues should stay out of it. If fans don’t like it, they can say whatever they like, but the teams should send a clear message they won’t stifle player speech. If you’re a fan who doesn’t like a player, go post about it on nostr, start a blog or a podcasts. Stop watching that team on TV, whatever. But your remedy is not to get him blackballed from the game. Teams are cowardly about this, should take a clear stand.
Best thing about the NFL draft is no one knows anything. Like that my Giants didn’t force a QB, got a potential star WR, but remind me of this take in five years.