What one thing would you change about MLB?

[TimeForGuinness]

Contraction?

I'll play the devil's advocate, why not expansion? Seems to work for the fan and maybe baseball in general,

Smaller stadiums ~20-30 thousand seats
Get rid of most of the minor leagues
Instead of divisions, have conferences (a la NCAA basketball)
Lower ticket prices
Most of the minor leaguers will have the chance to prove themselves
MLB gains exposure all over the country
Better localized rivalries
Shorten the season and have a tourny at the end of the season

[AJ]

They already did that.... The Milwaukee Beers beat the Dallas Convicts for the championship Wow Jenny looked good in that movie.

Contraction?

I'll play the devil's advocate, why not expansion? Seems to work for the fan and maybe baseball in general,

Smaller stadiums ~20-30 thousand seats
Get rid of most of the minor leagues
Instead of divisions, have conferences (a la NCAA basketball)
Lower ticket prices
Most of the minor leaguers will have the chance to prove themselves
MLB gains exposure all over the country
Better localized rivalries
Shorten the season and have a tourny at the end of the season

[mcgee51taguchi99]

Contraction?

I'll play the devil's advocate, why not expansion? Seems to work for the fan and maybe baseball in general,

Smaller stadiums ~20-30 thousand seats
Get rid of most of the minor leagues
Instead of divisions, have conferences (a la NCAA basketball)
Lower ticket prices
Most of the minor leaguers will have the chance to prove themselves
MLB gains exposure all over the country
Better localized rivalries
Shorten the season and have a tourny at the end of the season

Further dilution of the talent base = BAD

[TimeForGuinness]

Contraction?

I'll play the devil's advocate, why not expansion? Seems to work for the fan and maybe baseball in general,

Smaller stadiums ~20-30 thousand seats
Get rid of most of the minor leagues
Instead of divisions, have conferences (a la NCAA basketball)
Lower ticket prices
Most of the minor leaguers will have the chance to prove themselves
MLB gains exposure all over the country
Better localized rivalries
Shorten the season and have a tourny at the end of the season

Further dilution of the talent base = BAD

It is already bad...and prices are high.

[redbirdjazzz]

am i the only one who's 100% fine with 30 teams and the current playoff structure?

I wouldn't say no to making it tougher for wildcard teams, but I don't have much of a problem with how it is now.

[Redbirdruss]

I would like to thank everyone for all of their insightfull and well reasoned answers to this difficult question.

Now for my answer:

You should do something about the cost of the beer. $9 for a Budweiser?
You gotta be kidding me...

[mcgee51taguchi99]

I would like to thank everyone for all of their insightfull and well reasoned answers to this difficult question.

Now for my answer:

You should do something about the cost of the beer. $9 for a Budweiser?
You gotta be kidding me...

Get creative . . . you'll find methods around this.

[mcgee51taguchi99]

Contraction?

I'll play the devil's advocate, why not expansion? Seems to work for the fan and maybe baseball in general,

Smaller stadiums ~20-30 thousand seats
Get rid of most of the minor leagues
Instead of divisions, have conferences (a la NCAA basketball)
Lower ticket prices
Most of the minor leaguers will have the chance to prove themselves
MLB gains exposure all over the country
Better localized rivalries
Shorten the season and have a tourny at the end of the season

Further dilution of the talent base = BAD

It is already bad...and prices are high.

I guess I don't understand, you recognize the talent base is diluted, so the solution is to make it even worse?

[TimeForGuinness]

Contraction?

I'll play the devil's advocate, why not expansion? Seems to work for the fan and maybe baseball in general,

Smaller stadiums ~20-30 thousand seats
Get rid of most of the minor leagues
Instead of divisions, have conferences (a la NCAA basketball)
Lower ticket prices
Most of the minor leaguers will have the chance to prove themselves
MLB gains exposure all over the country
Better localized rivalries
Shorten the season and have a tourny at the end of the season

Further dilution of the talent base = BAD

It is already bad...and prices are high.

I guess I don't understand, you recognize the talent base is diluted, so the solution is to make it even worse?

Sorry, at work.

If it is already diluted, then why the high prices? And if it dilutes more, you really wouldn't see a drop in good baseball and the prices would come down. Think of it like college basketball, most of them good teams, and the inter-conference matchups are fun.

Granted there is a cutoff...I'm not saying there has to be 300 teams. But if there were twice or three times as many teams as now, the cost of the business would diminish, cheaper prices, and talent would be not much different.

Granted, there probably has to be a salary cap to keep everyone fair...

Oh, and I am just playing the devil's advocate...just arguing the other side of contraction.

I guess you could make the same argument about contraction though, less teams, higher talent...maybe a drop off in salary because the demand for great baseball players would be low. But then again, you wouldn't be reaching as many markets, and the prices would still be high.

TFG

[10xandcounting]

I get the same e-mail from MLB and answered with a minimum/maximum salary cap

Now I think I should have mentioned making the wild card road to victory more difficult or digital strike zones if not than discipline umps that can't call the strike zone as it's written in the rules.