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MLB 2020: We'll Play Ball, I Guess.

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JF_Gophers said:
So Max just looking for a last payday instead of trying to win another ring.
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If he can keep his stuff together and deGrom comes back for a full year he might get another ring.

We (Escobar, Canha, Marte, Scherzer) might not be done (Baez and/or Gausman). SAC is Honey Badger.

Edit: Not Gausman (Toronto).
 
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Being reported that the MLBPA initial offer wants to expand the playoffs to 12 and cut each league to two divisions, aka expand to 32.

Assuming they keep AL and NL, you’d have

AL East
BAL
BOS
TB/MTL
TOR
NYY
CLE
DET
CHW?

AL West
HOU
TEX
OAK/LV
LAA
SEA
KC
MIN
CHW?

NL East
ATL
MIA
NYM
PHI
WSH
PIT
CIN
CHC?
MIL?

NL West
LAD
SD
SF
AZ
COL
STL
CHC?
MIL?

The Chicago teams and Milwaukee (and Cardinals to an extent) are hard to place. You’d have to break up some deep rivalries, both historic and geographic. Plus, with relocations and expansion cities up in the air, that adds a ton of other variables. Vegas and Montreal are expansion or relocation options, Raleigh/Charlotte, Nashville, and Portland are always thrown around for expansion.
 
I'll take

ATL
CIN
MIA
(MON)
NYM
PHI
PIT
WSH

AZ
CHC
COL
LAD
MIL
SD
SF
STL

But in my world there are no wild cards -- we go back to a single best-of-5 NLCS.

Since obvious they are money-grubbing pigs, we will wind up with top 2 in each division plus 2 wild cards, first round best-of-3 while the champ of each division gets a bye.
 
JF_Gophers said:
MLBPA wanting to scale back revenue sharing is worrying. That seems harmful to their constituents.
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I think the idea is revenue sharing enable owners like Pittsburgh to cheap out because the other owners are paying them to be Little Sisters of the Poor.

If everybody has to sink or swim, the deadbeat owners are squeezed out and salaries will rise faster overall.

The players want an MLB owned by 32 SACs.
 
There is no way small market teams will go along with merging divisions with large market teams without a salary cap.
 
Bronco said:
There is no way small market teams will go along with merging divisions with large market teams without a salary cap.
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I forget where I read it, but I heard that's the backdoor endgame. Get a salary cap, because that will also mean there will be a salary floor.
 
aparch said:
I forget where I read it, but I heard that's the backdoor endgame. Get a salary cap, because that will also mean there will be a salary floor.
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The small fry should have instituted a salary cap ages ago. I assume the bribe not to was revenue sharing so they could just use that to line their pockets, lose to the rich clubs, and fuck their fan bases over.
 
Kepler said:
The small fry should have instituted a salary cap ages ago. I assume the bribe not to was revenue sharing so they could just use that to line their pockets, lose to the rich clubs, and fuck their fan bases over.
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The salary cap never got instituted because the owners screwed the players out of millions by colluding in free agency
 
Billionaires fighting millionaires...

They'll drag this out into April or so and we'll get a 120 game season again.
 
RaceBoarder said:
Billionaires fighting millionaires...

They'll drag this out into April or so and we'll get a 120 game season again.
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And unfortunately a good portion of people would rather take the billionaires’ side. The average FA contract has dropped nearly 50% since the last CBA, but you know how many “poor player” sarcastic comments you’ll see?

Same story every time. When it’s the owners, it’s their business. But for the players, it’s never their jobs, it’s always just a game.
 
Most players aren’t millionaires, especially the minor leaguers, fuck outta here with that “billionaires versus millionaires” anti-labor BS.
 
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