As we did with the NL second-half preview, we’ll start in the Central division. I’ll reiterate what I said in the most recent AL Central Notebook: the Indians are not going to catch the White Sox, but they are going to narrow the gap. Each team played to an extreme in the first half, the…
On Friday, Major League Baseball’s Blue Ribbon Panel of Certified Outside Experts released its report on competitive balance in baseball, issuing a list of recommendations on how to prevent the gap between extremely-rich teams and less-extremely-rich teams from getting bigger. The four-man group, which had access to all of the sport’s financial data, didn’t say…