On top of this prior interview and article, the American Enterprise Institute interviews the baseball sabermetrician Bill James. A few excerpts:

TAE: Is Barry Bonds the best player of our era?
JAMES: By far.
TAE: Was Babe Ruth the finest player in the history of the majors?
JAMES: Yes. Mays may have been as good, Honus Wagner may have been as good, Bonds may be as good. But Ruth had more impact.

And another:

TAE: More American kids now play soccer than baseball. And on a Sunday afternoon in the middle of June you can, as I found last summer, go looking for baseball on TV and find everything but, from NFL Europe to women’s golf. What, if anything, can be done to halt baseball’s slide in popularity?
JAMES: I advocate a Constitutional amendment against playing soccer.
Seriously, the problem is that baseball is not a television game, and the television era has not been particularly good to baseball. To be fair, professional baseball tolerates an unconscionable amount of standing around and posturing, and this makes it less exciting than it ought to be and therefore less attractive to young people. I think there’s a growing recognition of this, but the problem is that even when one recognizes the problem it’s very hard to fix. People in baseball are working on it, however.

And on the issue of “team chemistry”:

TAE: Should a team’s racial composition ever be a factor when building a club, in terms of “chemistry”? The Florida Marlins reportedly signed Latin players quite consciously because they have a large Latin fan base.
JAMES: It’s hard enough to make judgments about baseball players when you make them on the basis of: How fast does he run? How well does he throw? What’s he like in the clubhouse? If you start building in irrelevant factors it makes the process not difficult but impossible.

Stated simply, Bill James is a national treasure.