Rookie pitcher's debut breaks a strikeout record held for decades
Scouts said the ceiling was high. The roof came off anyway.
Still, the conversation has changed. The questions in the room are different from the questions in the room six months ago.
Critics raise familiar objections, and some of them land. The honest answer is that the tradeoffs are real and worth naming.
The numbers tell part of the story. The rest lives in the texture of how people are actually behaving when no one is watching.
Whatever happens next, the baseline has moved. The old assumptions no longer describe the room they were built to describe.
A small group of practitioners has been arguing for this approach for years. They are doing their best not to look smug.
The institutional response has been measured, which in this context is a polite way of saying slow.
