DirkPiggler (03-10-2022)
Some of you all may prefer to see the Mets and Phillies 19 times a year, but I'm more excited to see Braves-White Sox, Braves-Athletics, etc. each year. Yes, there will also be Braves-Royals and Braves-Tigers, too, but I'd gladly change 2 Marlins series for those.
So MLB is adding 10 interleague series a year for each team. I wonder how many division games they subtract from each rival? That's 30 games minimum (or maybe they do some 2 and 2) being taken away from divisional rivals. So perhaps it's 32 games and you take away 8 games from each divisional rival?
Forever Fredi
I'm just happy a deal was done and a season is coming. Now sign Freddie Freeman, dang it!
Chopping With The Braves And Rolling With The Tide
Alright boys and girls, time for a new season!
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Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
It's likely they will require 2 infielders on each side of 2nd. So it essentially takes away overloading on the right side of the infielder with a guy play essentially playing shallow right. What this won't do is take away the SS playing almost up the middle and taking away plays that were hits 15+ years ago. So it will be more aesthetically pleasing to the people who get all but hurt when they see nobody on the left side of the field when a powerful lefty comes up. But in reality, the SS taking balls hit up the middle and turning them into outs has much more of an effect on the game imo and that's not going away.
Looks like 10 teams will have salaries under 100 million. Don't you get 100 million from the TV deal by itself?
4 teams under 50 million.
Ownership sucks. At least sign some 1 year Free agents you can flip for young players later in the year. They need a way to kick the pirates owner out. Just under 25 million, really?
I think MLB has good parity. We don't have any 3 peats or stuff like that going on.
There are teams that try to win that don't make the playoffs, at least before the stupid expansion.
I don't think MLB has a parity problem as defined by who gets into playoffs and who wins. I think they have a 25% of the league isn't trying problem.
No cap, no floor. Minimum should 1,000,000, making the floor 26 million. Then it should go up to 2,000,000 quickly. If you can't swing a 50million payroll get out.
That why I thought it was funny the players were holding out for higher tax threshold. It literally only benefits a few teams and a few players and only divides the haves and haves not more. They should have been holding out for a salary floor even if it capped the salary ceiling. Would bring more players to a higher salary while not hurting the superstars earning potential.
Coppy
It’s no surprise the players executive board (Scherzer, etc.) all voted no and basically all the rank and file players from each team voted yes. Your highest paid players hate the tax because that’s what impacts them the most.
Players didn’t do much to solve their long term problems with this CBA, in my opinion.