Historical stats: one more thing that's killing baseball.

Last night I was telling a friend about my idea of eliminating the catcher. His response was that it could not be done because the historical stats would be impacted.

Aside from the obvious fact that a new statistical paradigm would emerge I was distressed by the unwillingness of an intelligent baseball person to consider meaningful change because of the old records.

Baseball is doomed. The percentage of plate appearances that result in inaction, i.e., walks and strikeouts, increases each season. The percentage of foreign born players increases each season. Both are at about 28 percent. Now we add the unwillingness to disturb ... what? Numbers that have become oppressive impediments.

Too bad. Baseball could be made entertaining again, even dynamic. Instead it continues to slow down with ever increasing dead time between the dwindling numbers of action plays.