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    Baseball: The Next Five Years

    As we get ready to begin a new decade, what are some things that could happen in Major League Baseball? Place five predictions on what you think will or could happen by the time we get to 2025. Here’s mine:

    With the new CBA, a universal DH is put in place.

    MLB announced expansion to 32 teams with franchises being put in Las Vegas and Nashville

    The process of the relocation of the Rays to Montreal begins

    A radical realignment abolishes the Wild Card

    The Braves win a World Series
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    More talk of shortening the season by
    A dozen games. For a lot of fans, their interest In MLB wanes as soon as football starts.

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    DH will be discussed ad nauseum, but will not come to fruition. Rays will stay in Tampa until the expiration of their lease (meaning they’ll stay in TB until 2028).

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    Joe West has a heart attack and dies on the field. RIP.

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    Trout and the Angel's fail to win their division the entire decade.



    MLB gives the Nats another secret "loan" rather than telling them to reduce payroll if they cant meet financial comitments.



    Yankees get caught doing the same thing Coppy did and only get fines 250k



    The Braves win the division 8 out of 10 years and fail to advance 7 times.



    MLB changes a rule that severely ****s over the Braves





    People realize future value for the joke stat that it is.
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    Braves sign Donaldson to a four year deal and he turn into Dan Uggla II.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    Braves sign Donaldson to a four year deal and he turn into Dan Uggla II.
    I used to like you on this side of the forum....

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    Braves become a dominant farm system by owning most of their teams when MLB fold the minor league development system. Some team will have to place most of their farm clubs in their complex.

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    Sounds like once universal DH comes about, the DH may only get to bat while the SP is still in the game. Once the starting pitcher goes out, the DH spot becomes null and void.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krgrecw View Post
    Sounds like once universal DH comes about, the DH may only get to bat while the SP is still in the game. Once the starting pitcher goes out, the DH spot becomes null and void.
    That’s only a rumor in Stark’s Athletic story. He was opining about what the future of baseball could be in this decade and he brought that point up. No guarantee that will happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    Braves sign Donaldson to a four year deal and he turn into Dan Uggla II.
    This is what's gonna happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krgrecw View Post
    Sounds like once universal DH comes about, the DH may only get to bat while the SP is still in the game. Once the starting pitcher goes out, the DH spot becomes null and void.
    That would be an excellent rule change. A lot more in game strategy. Would mostly eliminate DH only players. SPs that can pitch longer in games would give their teams an incredible advantage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slippyjms View Post
    That would be an excellent rule change. A lot more in game strategy. Would mostly eliminate DH only players. SPs that can pitch longer in games would give their teams an incredible advantage.
    I don't know that it would make that much difference with starting pitchers in terms of going deeper into games. The relievers that replace them are only going one inning anyway, and will only bat in blowouts. The change would simply make pinch hitting a valuable skill in the AL again, while taking away the risk for injury and the uselessness of the starting pitchers getting two at bats per game. It does seem like a good compromise to both bring back an element of late-inning strategy to the AL and prevent wasted plate appearances in the NL.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DirkPiggler View Post
    I don't know that it would make that much difference with starting pitchers in terms of going deeper into games. The relievers that replace them are only going one inning anyway, and will only bat in blowouts. The change would simply make pinch hitting a valuable skill in the AL again, while taking away the risk for injury and the uselessness of the starting pitchers getting two at bats per game. It does seem like a good compromise to both bring back an element of late-inning strategy to the AL and prevent wasted plate appearances in the NL.
    I believe his point was that pitchers who can go deep would be more valuable because there would be fewer instances of them being removed for a PH before they were necessarily done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowman View Post
    I believe his point was that pitchers who can go deep would be more valuable because there would be fewer instances of them being removed for a PH before they were necessarily done.
    Maybe. I took it to mean starting pitchers who could go deeper would be more valuable because they would keep the DH in the lineup.

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    I am not sure I see the Players Association embracing it based on what Slippy said. It would reduce the value of DH type players by limiting their ability to affect the game in the late innings.

    I also see the increased value of pinch hitting, but I am not sure that makes up for the loss of the DH in the late innings.

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