Raw baseball

The wonderful Peter Gammons has a piece on how the crackdown on illegal muscle and attention enhancers has favored the players who are more naturally vivacious: the young ones. It's pretty dead-on, and it makes me nervous for the near-future of my Mets. Every year a few kids show up and change the entire look of a bullpen. Position players and starters can make a big enough splash to vault their team into the playoffs. I still have high hopes and expectations for the boys of Queens, but I think our unexpected farm help won't go much beyond a couple of good starts from the inevitably unexciting Nelson Figueroa.

Here's my long term solution for baseball: raw food.
I'm not joking at all. Here's why:
Do you know any raw foodists? There's something different about them. They have a palpable glow. They grin, laugh, hug. They never seem to get tired. That's what I find compelling, but from a baseball standpoint, the benefits are clear and tangible:
1) Increased energy. More than the muscle-building PEDs, with their often easy-to-point-to effects, I suspect amphetamines had the larger impact on the game. Everyone benefits from extra energy and focus. Baseball seasons are really long, and there are far more uninteresting at-bats than "big" ones. A little extra jazz in your step keeps you tuned in, and gives you more energy to work with.
The most commonly sited raw food benefit is abundant energy.

2) Better senses. Lasik eye surgery has been shown to increase batting averages. Makes plenty of sense- if you have better vision, you get a better look at pitch speed, type, spin, direction, etc. Committed raw foodies report better vision, hearing, taste, etc.

3) Faster injury recovery. When the body is not taxed by improper nutrition, it is better equipped to deal with upsets when they occur.

From a baseball perspecitve, a raw food diet is like amphetamines, Lasik and HGH rolled into one. The cost of raw food is an issue for some, but not for any baseball player. The main issue for them would be convenience. Going out to eat can make things difficult, and all the travel would complicate things. So yes, it would be something they'd have to commit to. Lots of people wouldn't get it and/or would make fun of them, these hypothetical raw-foodist big league baseball players. But wouldn't it be worth it? And wouldn't nutrition at its finest be a great thing for baseball to put on display?
Prince Fielder's a vegittarean. The times they are a-changin.