wpr
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4 years ago
My son and I have been talking about this for years.

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There aren’t enough bad words to describe the Orioles, and yet they’re somehow not even the worst team in baseball: The Tigers are 35–80 and have won a grand total of 13 games since the end of May. Nor are those two alone in their awfulness. The Blue Jays are flirting with their first 100-loss season in 40 years. The Royals are on pace to lose 102 games. The White Sox will miss the playoffs for the 11th straight season. The Mariners player with the most Wins Above Replacement in 2019 is Edwin Encarnacion, and he was traded two months ago. The Marlins are en route to a 10th consecutive losing season. And the Pirates are a staggering 5–24 in the second half.

It’s flat-out embarrassing that there are this many bad teams in baseball, and worse, the majority of those squads came into the year with no hope of contending and no chance of being anything other than terrible. That’s a disservice to the fans of those teams and of MLB as a whole. Things go wrong and bad seasons happen, but franchises intentionally coming into the year with Triple A-caliber rosters and racking up loss after loss is actively detrimental to the game.

How do you fix that, though? Simple: You make losing as painful as possible, and in that vein, there’s no better way to stop tanking in baseball than to borrow a page from the Premier League’s book and institute relegation. At the end of the season, the six worst teams in the majors—three from each league—are sent down to Triple A. If the Orioles aren’t capable of contending at the major league level, then they shouldn’t be here. Nor should the Tigers or the Marlins or the half-dozen other teams seemingly content to waste everyone’s time.

This won’t happen. There are too many logistical issues and holes, and neither the league nor the Players Association would ever agree to it. But when the other alternative is letting the Orioles make a mockery of the sport day in and day out, it’s clear that MLB has to do something—anything—to force those teams to be better.



As stated it will never happen if for no other reason than the minor league teams are tied to major league clubs and it would be very odd when someone who is playing for Louisville gets called up to Cincinnati. Or a Pawtuckett player goes to Boston. Especially if they are in the same division and scheduled to face one another that week.
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KRK
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4 years ago
That is not the solution....

The solution is meaningful revenue sharing.

Smaller market teams have to gamble, tank, and shoot for a window of opportunity to go through when their young talent is under inexpensive contracts. By the time these players become known quantities, the good ones are signed away.

Penalizing teams in weak markets is the wrong answer.
In Luce tua Videmus Lucem KRK
Cheesey
4 years ago
KRK, that’s the situation. How many titles have the New York Yankees “bought”?
They have so much money, they can buy up all the talent.
Teams like the Brewers can’t compete with that.
Unless they come up with a salary cap, it won’t change.
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Zero2Cool
4 years ago

That is not the solution....

The solution is meaningful revenue sharing.

Smaller market teams have to gamble, tank, and shoot for a window of opportunity to go through when their young talent is under inexpensive contracts. By the time these players become known quantities, the good ones are signed away.

Penalizing teams in weak markets is the wrong answer.

Originally Posted by: KRK 



When you have one player pulling in more money than one of the teams in your league, your league is wrong.

I think it was Alex Rodriguez that had a salary that exceeded what the Marlins had for their entire team. That kinda thing makes me less hopeful for markets that aren't massive.
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