The Guru’s Grievances

I hope you caught Peter Gammons’ Saturday column on Things Wrong With Baseball. Not that I agree with all his diagnoses, but it was a well-thought-out piece (combining, apparently, the Guru’s own thinking with that of his sources). I part company on griping about guys like Francisco Rodriguez being on the postseason roster, but it’s true that the Angels were able to make mock of the rules requiring the roster to be set by September 1. Many of these points are familiar ones to any reader of Bill James.