The New Yorker · 4 Oct 2026
Baseball Is Better with a Little Risk
The game was already changing when Gray entered the league; it’s changed even more dramatically since then. It’s been almost a decade since teams started using “openers”—pitchers who would stay on the mound for an inning or two before a reliever came in to eat up the lion’s share—or platoons of reli
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