Andrew McCutchen is batting .340 this season for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He is currently in second place in the National League batting race, .006 behind the leader. While Major League Baseball generally never roots for one player to hit higher than another, this is one instance where MLB needs to root for McCutchen to overtake the current leader and capture the N.L. Batting crown.
That is because the current player leading the senior circuit in hitting is Melky Cabrera of the San Francisco Giants. Cabrera is serving his 50 game suspension after testing positive for performance enhancing drugs, yet his .346 average is still enough to lead the league. While he is one official at-bat short of having enough to qualify for the batting crown, all MLB would do is enter one more hitless at-bat to his average, and it would then be enough.
This cannot happen. It is that simple.
Yet MLB commissioner Bud Selig does not sound like a man willing to change the rule.
“We’ll see how it...
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September 20, 2012
