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I particularly do not share his POV, as expressed in his own blog to the effect that:
http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/026460.php
"I really believe this is the first indication of a seismic shift in the quality of the leagues. It happened twice before. The NL was way ahead of the AL in signing black ballplayers after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, and that led to the NL dominating the All-Star game from the 1950s through the early 1980s. Then, the AL was quicker to harvest the talent coming out of Latin America, and AL became the dominant league, taking over the All Star game from the late 1980s through last season. It now appears that the NL discovered that young talent is better talent, and I suspect they will once again return to being the dominant league."
The sample size is too small, and there's too many variables (e.g., AL 3B and C are hitting lower this year to an extent because A-Rod and Posada, who had monster seasons in 2007, are injured/have been injured) that it doesn't take into account.
Furthermore, the AL has 4 of the 5 highest ranked farm systems in baseball (using the below two rankings), so I truly believe that we are not seeing a shift but a blip.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080313&content_id=2423721&vkey=spt2008news&fext;=.jsp&c_id=mlb
http://www.meadowparty.com/blog/?p=160
Also, last time I checked, Colorado is still in the NL.
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