Letter from the afterlife from KM Landis to Manfred

ROB: write to you Kenesaw Mountain Landiswho was the first commissioner of the baseball. I was in those positions for 24 years and 13 days, from November 12, 1920 until I came to this More here what you call BeyondNovember 25, 1944. You are ending baseball with a bang.

You are the height of stubbornness.

If so many people in our entertainment sport, including figures like John Smoltz, emphasize to you day after day that your obsession with little watches is wreaking havoc on the shoulders and elbows of pitchers, why do you remain as if it were not your problem? ?.

Rob: Smoltz, now 56, pitched in the major leagues for 21 seasons, 1988-2009, plus 2000, when he was out due to injury. He was just as good a starter, 313-155, 3.33, 53 complete games, as a reliever, 154 saves. And then he has spent more than a decade narrating on television. In other words, he must know a little more about pitching than you do. Hear it. Pay attention to him, call him to talk, so he can teach you. Look what he said:

“If I had pitched in this generation, I would have only stayed in baseball for about two years before retiring. You wouldn't even know my name. Because, since I could shoot 100 miles an hour, my shoulder would have fallen off. “My body would not have supported those new watch technologies.”

Smoltz is one of more than a hundred retired major leaguers, doctors, trainers, biomechanics experts and pitching coaches who have investigated the matter. They are alarmed by the number of injuries recorded lately in figures like Eury Pérez, of the Marlins; Shane Bieber, of the Indians; Spencer Strider, of the Braves; Gerrit Cole, of the Yankees; Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers; Jacob DeGrom, Rangers. Cole, he has said publicly, is sure that the alarming number of injured pitchers have fallen due to your brutal mania for automating baseball, a sport that is impossible to automate.

Think back, analyze, ask for and accept advice, save yourself even when it is at the last minute. Because Rob, you still earn points to be enthroned in history as the worst commissioner. This time you are guilty of something very serious, extremely worrying, you are harming the health of the players, to bring more and more millions of dollars to the bank accounts of your partners at ESPN and FOX.

We will remember you as the watch commissioner kills pitchers. The millions of dollars have brutalized you to the max. I pity you and I pity baseball.

You will go down in history as a baggage in the luxuries of the Park Avenue offices and with fees of 17 million 500 thousand dollars per season… Kenny.

Of Venezuelan origin, naturalized American. He was born on January 10, 1929. He began working as a reporter in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1947, and later graduated, in 1953, as a journalist from the Márquez Sterling school in Havana, Cuba. Postgraduate degree in historian in 1963, at Saint Francis College, Andale, Minnesota. He has covered all types of sources in journalism, has directed newspapers and magazines in Venezuela and the United States. Since October 1960, he has dedicated himself exclusively to Major League baseball. He was a radio and television announcer of Major League games for 22 years for Latin America, including Mexico. He has produced and broadcast numerous television programs about baseball. His daily column,

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