From the record-setting home run pace to potentially seeing more strikeouts than hits for a second straight season, baseball is seemingly in an odd place. Fans and analysts alike have pitchforked hitters’ all-or-nothing approach at the plate, concerned that “analytics have ruined the game.”



It’s an easy, knee-jerk argument to make. (I know from experience.)



But for anyone feeling down or frustrated by the state of the game, I offer these words of solace: it’s only temporary. In sports, nothing lasts forever. The beaucoup home runs and strikeouts you’re seeing? It’s a phase. Eventually, the pendulum will swing back the other way, and it will do so, in part, because of a guy who has never played in the major leagues.



His name is Nick Madrigal, and I believe he will be the face of baseball’s next revolution.



In a sport heavy on home runs and chock-full of Ks, Nick Madrigal rarely does either. The fourth...