It’s ridiculous. Edit - I have basically no interest in a 83-win Red Sox team Fighting for a playoff spot.
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So top division winner gets a bye and remaining two division winners + four WC teams play a best of 3.
Man a potential 4th place team in a division making the playoffs just doesn’t seem right at all.
That would seem to create salary deflation in the AL East. No reason for competing with the joneses.
I guess you can have a shortened regular season if you’re going to have a 14 team playoffs. Ugh.
The number of teams doesn't bother me so much if there is a fair way to make it harder for the bottom teams vs the division leaders. A 4 day Thursday - Sunday with 1 travel day weekend of elimination baseball could be fun and more fair than a bunch of 1 game series while the top teams get off.
It has to be done with the goal of 1) Incentivizing division winners and/or runners up 2) Not extending the playoffs to a degree where its muddled and boring 3) Finding an exciting replacement for the 1 game playoff that is fair
It has to be done with the goal of 1) Incentivizing division winners and/or runners up 2) Not extending the playoffs to a degree where its muddled and boring 3) Finding an exciting replacement for the 1 game playoff that is fair
Still going. Players doing like the 14 teams proposal according to Heyman.
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3 best of three series, with the number one seed getting a bye with all three games at the top seeds ballpark.
If you pay your hard-earned money for an AL #2 vs. AL #7 preliminary-round series ticket, you are an idiot and an enabler. Sorry for the content-free post, but I can’t believe we’re going to lose about 0.25 to 1.0 seasons and come out of this with a far less interesting version of the sport than what we had before.
If they've agreed on the number of teams in the postseason then it's likely that other things will fall into place. The union's given up their biggest chip, they must have gotten something back (or not), so an agreement will come. It's been a really boring 3 months. Time for some free agency action.
The 12 team thing is good but it is going to suck when the MLBPA caves and agrees to a stupidly low CBT tax line again,. Since it was first instituted, if it kept pace with MLB revenue increases, it would be over $300M at the lowest tax level. So IMO if it does not end up at least 240/260/280, it is ridiculous. Again, no one is forcing any team to spend at those levels if they don't want and spending money backfires a big chunk of the time, so all the players are asking for is to let the owners who want to spend more do it, 280 is still pretty high and you can make the taxes over that huge. If any owners don't think that is fair to their market and their team's revenues, sell the team because I am quite certain someone will be happy to buy it.
Keep going. Lock the door and throw away the key until a deal is done.
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Shouldn't they get a good night's sleep and come back tomorrow?
Is making a billion dollar deal at 1AM sensical?
Is making a billion dollar deal at 1AM sensical?
Travis Sawchik is right that the midpoints here might be acceptable for the MLBPA:
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I'd rather they plow through than give any key player on either side sleep on it and come back with deal-breakers
I will just do a mind trick. The best team(s) will always be the ones that prevailed over a full season.
Then there’s the gimmick thing where the hottest team wins a short tournament.
If you think about it, it’s kind of always been that way.
Then there’s the gimmick thing where the hottest team wins a short tournament.
If you think about it, it’s kind of always been that way.
13th meeting today between the sides.
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Shift restrictions are so dumb, ugh.
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Done for the night, but promising:
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This is way more progress than I imagine any outsider expected tonight. Actual reasonable chance a deal gets done?
I would put it at ~90% that a deal gets done because the union gave up their biggest chip. Good news about increasing CBT levels, it leaves us room for Correa. Has anything been finalized about draft-pick penalties? If these are gone then there's no way we don't go hard for Correa.
Ah, from the prior reporting, I thought they meant $230M in 2022 and going up from there to maybe $250M in 2026, which would maybe be barely acceptable, but those above numbers are still way too low. I will give the chances of a deal today by 5 PM 50/50, and it will take the owners moving more than the players.
That last proposal from MLB on the luxury tax is ridiculously bad. Either the MLBPA gets screwed (again) or we have no baseball this year is what it looks like.
They’ve gotten this far, there will be baseball. If they are diving deep into topics like shifts, I’d love for them to discuss trading draft picks and having an international draft but whatever.
Just hit the ball the other way, no need for rules on the shift.
Just hit the ball the other way, no need for rules on the shift.
Yes, Loumer. That’s the reason. It’s not because a conscious decision has been made to emphasize launch angle, exit velocity, and making money since chicks dog the longball.” It’s because these players aren’t skilled enough to shorten their swing.
It takes work to learn how to hit the ball the other way but it’s not rocket science. It’s a no- glory craft that leads to winning games. Anything on the outer half is oppo-eligible. Hell jeter would hit inside pitches to RF.
Lame excuse by Merloni who I generally like.
Lame excuse by Merloni who I generally like.
Well, he's kinda sorta right. It is difficult to consciously hit the other way IF (big if) the pitcher is trying to induce you to hit into the shift by pitching inside. Problem is, pitchers aren't perfect and will make mistakes on the outside half of the plate. And those pitches can be hit the other way to beat the shift. Those are the pitches that many hitters lay off because they're not pitches they can drive, or they still try to pull them and roll over weak grounders to the right side. It's part and parcel of the same mentality that has led to more Ks rather than hitters choking up and protecting the plate with two strikes. It can be corrected if hitters change their approach.
They are, but the game will look and "play" better with them in place and there has been a decent lobbying by the players the last couple of weeks to remove them. Of note on the Yankees, Gallo and DJ tweeted about removing them. Something along the lines of "how does the MLB want me to hit doubles and triples when there are 6 outfielders?"
Sorry if I have missed it but has there been any talk of making the wild card best of 3? I’d be “ok” with 12 teams if the division winners get a bye and the remaining 4 wild cards have a mini round.
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