Has anyone considered what the impact of limiting the September call-up from 15 players (25>40) to two players (26>28, with only one being a pitcher) will have on minor league players? Players were called up, sometimes from need, but also to give some a taste of the Bigs and to see how they handled it. They also got rewarded because their pay would go from minor league levels to major league minimum for that time.
The population of this country has about doubled since I was a kid; yet, I bet there were more boys back then who would have said, "be a baseball player," when asked what they wanted to do in life than you would find today. If MLB makes the minor leagues less appealing, we will have to import more and more players. You want to immigrate to this country? Learn how to play baseball well.
The population of this country has about doubled since I was a kid; yet, I bet there were more boys back then who would have said, "be a baseball player," when asked what they wanted to do in life than you would find today. If MLB makes the minor leagues less appealing, we will have to import more and more players. You want to immigrate to this country? Learn how to play baseball well.