Whoo-hoo, .500 and you are in!! Mlb becomes the Nba. For the love of... What is happening to my first love...
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Whoo-hoo, .500 and you are in!! Mlb becomes the Nba. For the love of... What is happening to my first love...
True on both counts, y'all know as well as I do all these changes will stay.
I’m worried about that too. And with likely expansion will increase the incentive to do this even further.
I also think it’s funny how Manfred and the owners said a more than 60 game regular season was unfeasible without a massive pay cut from the players, yet we can now play a max total of 66 postseason games on top of that with no expectations of fans being back.
But, in 60 games we don't know if a 1-seed actually deserves it or not, so I don't see a problem with it for this weird season.
Yeah i think it's a little unfair as well that one of the top 2 seeds could get bounced by a lower seed. Given how weird baseball is, wouldnt be surprising if a lower seed won 2 of 3 games vs a top seed.
But if this is only for this year, i guess whatever. It does take the pressure off a bad start by the Braves and not being in a big hole that wouldnt be able to get out of. Anywhere from 27-30 wins is probably a lock for the playoffs, maybe even lower.
Its gonna make the regular season way less interesting. Any solid team should make it now. And there is literally no advantage of being a top side in playoffs
It absolutely 100% should not stick around after this year, and I do fear it will, but I think it was necessary for this weird-ass season. Even ignoring for a moment that 60 games is not enough to overcome luck effects in baseball, with teams only playing teams in their geographical lineup (i.e., a team in the NL or AL East will only play teams in the NL and AL East), it's entirely possible that a 25-35 team from the East or West will legitimately be a better team than a 40-20 team in one of the Centrals but who had to play a far tougher schedule.
Valid points all.
Anyone look at the San Francisco Giants' starting line-up? Outside of Crawford and Flores, it's a collection of guys on their last legs and glorified Triple-A players.