Reader Mailbag, Part 1: The challenges of modern pitching, mascot fights, Herb Alpert, 1998 Cards talk, immediate-impact prospects to watch, and more

Readers have questions, writer has answers -- some of them possibly correct and coherent

You responded to the recent call for mailbag questions with zeal and abundance, so I’ll be breaking up my replies into two posts. The first one is just below.

Jibby writes:

If all 30 MLB mascots had to participate in a WWE style Royal Rumble, who wins and why?

This is a compelling hypothetical. Are we talking about the actual/anthropomorphic versions of t…