Whicker: Hockey folks show baseball purists that rule changes can be embraced

The 2020 baseball season, all 240 characters of it, will show us the difference between change and caricature.
Sixty games is caricature.
Beginning an extra inning with a man on second base is change.
One is a Band-Aid, to plug an emergency. The other is worth studying.
Purists will grow nauseated at the first sight of a man carrying the winning run without having to touch ’em all. That’s fine, but purists don’t pay the freight.
“The only people there in the 15th inning a