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Effectively Wild Episode 1981: An Arrow in the Knee at the WBC

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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Is Baseball a Dying Sport?

In theory, it shouldn't really matter that much whether the baseball players used to be better or worse. It makes me feel like it's a thriving sport as opposed to a dying sport. I know that people have been saying it's dying for a really, really, really long time. But if you become convinced that there were better days and that it's just sort of circling the drain then that maybe makes you a little less likely to get invested and people less likely to care. If we were talking about the talent level plateauing in MLB or just a slight decline, I don't know that we would be able to detect that really unless we got to the point where guys were routinely fl

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