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My personal opinion is that--outside of the NFL--anything other than a best-of-7 playoff series is lame.

I'd like to see each league go back to two divisions--East and West--with top two in each division facing off in a best-of-7. Winners playoff in the LCS, then the World Series.

Keep the 162-game grind, which is unique to baseball and part of its charm.

Yes, good teams will miss the playoffs, but the flip side is that only great teams will qualify. And making the playoffs would be a real accomplishment and the playoff series would be legit wars of attrition and not best-of-3 or one-and-done gimmicks.
 
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dredeye said:
Where exactly did I say that? I said it would be nice to have more teams in instead of primarily the monster spenders. I'm not sure how you took that to them not doing a demolition rebuild. I'm saying to find a way to discourage teams from doing that. Especially huge portions of the league. I then said there should be a floor so you don't have teams spending less than some players are making. I'd like to see more teams in to encourage more teams to try and compete annually. I think that would improve the game.
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I know that there were some altered revenue sharing based on the pandemic, but as part of the revenue sharing, the league could mandate a percentage of the revenues need to go to MLB player salary. ie. If Tampa receives $25mill in revenue sharing, at least 75% of that has to go to player salaries.

There's no real way for the league to mandate teams to not spend astronomical amounts. There are luxury taxes that the bigger markets are willing to pay, but they will blindly do it. I think the only way is to force the hand of the cheaper team.
 
dredeye said:
Yea I don't know how you bring up the bottom without addressing the top but spending shouldn't be the issue. Refusing to spend should be. I think we'll see some expansion possibly but where is there left to go? Montreal and Vegas maybe. I think there may just be a desire to put a team back in montreal with the Rays talk of splitting seasons. Maybe it's a test to see how viable that market is for another team. Vegas I don't think is a good market for baseball. Way too hot.
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Nashville has been rumoured as option for awhile, you could also poke around in Charlotte which will probably have a million people by 2030. I think it's only a matter of time until Vegas is a 4 sport city tbh. As long as the expansion rules allows for the teams to be competent, it'll put butts in seats.
 
BigBlu said:
I'm for 162. No to playoff expansion as well. Baseball has always been unique. Hockey already lets all the teams in the playoffs. Baseball rewards a long season. That's satisfying to me.

Baseball is America's pastime. It's less about winning the last game of the year than enjoying warm summer nights with a hotdog in your hand at the ballpark or having a cold beer in the backyard with the radio on.
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I didn't know half the teams making the playoffs was all the teams...
 
Hoverhand said:
Nashville has been rumoured as option for awhile, you could also poke around in Charlotte which will probably have a million people by 2030. I think it's only a matter of time until Vegas is a 4 sport city tbh. As long as the expansion rules allows for the teams to be competent, it'll put butts in seats.
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I know they have triple a team but man I couldn't imagine siting in the vegas sun that long to watch baseball regularly but it does make sense to have a team there. Forgot about Nashville. I was trying to think of bigger cities. Thought Buffalo briefly but that seems like what would be another Baltimore
 
showtime8 said:
I know that there were some altered revenue sharing based on the pandemic, but as part of the revenue sharing, the league could mandate a percentage of the revenues need to go to MLB player salary. ie. If Tampa receives $25mill in revenue sharing, at least 75% of that has to go to player salaries.

There's no real way for the league to mandate teams to not spend astronomical amounts. There are luxury taxes that the bigger markets are willing to pay, but they will blindly do it. I think the only way is to force the hand of the cheaper team.
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The absolutely should be forcing teams to use profit sharing on players instead of just money for owners. The issue is that they don't then need to spend money outside of that on the team if you know what I mean. Even if they just made it that teams had to spend say 5o million on player salaries if you got profit share and they mandate that extra 75 % then teams would have much more spent on their team. That's what I'd like to see
 
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Can a case be made for Trent Palmer being a top 10 prospect right now?

He just had a very impressive season at A ball with two 7 inning no hitters.

Didnt give up many hits while striking out hitters at a very good clip and didnt give up a single HR.
 
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weems said:
Can a case be made for Trent Palmer being a top 10 prospect right now?

He just had a very impressive season at A ball with two 7 inning no hitters.

Didnt give up many hits while striking out hitters at a very good clip and didnt give up a single HR.
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I think this list is looking at it from a Fantasy Baseball perspective as it is titled "dynasty prospects"
 
phillipmike said:
I think this list is looking at it from a Fantasy Baseball perspective as it is titled "dynasty prospects"
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Ok that makes sense.

Palmer is looking like a under the radar prospect that has some good upside.

I think @metafour has posted before about Palmer and that he's trending very well.
 
Another forum is doing a vote to eliminate a team a day and the main baseball forum is going after the Jays because the Jays sub-forum coordinated who to vote out (Jays have the biggest fanbase left of the remaining teams). So they are very angry with Jays fans for doing this.

Jays Neck and Neck with Minnesota:
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If you guys want to upset the other fanbases, vote Minnesota so the Jays are the last team standing. If the Jays make it through to the next round, ill send tomorrow's link.

You can vote as many times as you like, as long as you are on a different IP address.

Voting Link: Vote to eliminate one team from MLB | StrawPoll.com
 
phillipmike said:
Another forum is doing a vote to eliminate a team a day and the main baseball forum is going after the Jays because the Jays sub-forum coordinated who to vote out (Jays have the biggest fanbase left of the remaining teams). So they are very angry with Jays fans for doing this.

Jays Neck and Neck with Minnesota:


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If you guys want to upset the other fanbases, vote Minnesota so the Jays are the last team standing. If the Jays make it through to the next round, ill send tomorrow's link.

You can vote as many times as you like, as long as you are on a different IP address.

Voting Link: Vote to eliminate one team from MLB | StrawPoll.com
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I voted but it’s not looking good for the jays
 
dredeye said:
I voted but it’s not looking good for the jays
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It’s funny, the main thread is losing it over the Jays-Brewers alliance so they have been trying to eliminate the Jays and Brewers over the last few days with no luck.
 
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