Rotating Divisions in Baseball?

by Dave Tucker on Feb 1, 2010 3:51 PM EST Comment 14 comments

Just saw this article over on ESPN about realignment in baseball via rotating teams in and out of divisions so teams like the O's wouldn't have to always compete with the Yankees and Red Sox. Interesting concept. I know the idea of the O's in the AL Central has been discussed before and that the O's probably wouldn't have too many more wins during the last 12 years if they had been in the Central, but it's still an interesting concept. Credit to David Schoenfield for thinking outside the box for once and coming up with something creative.

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Interesting

Not likely to happen, but I’m all for it

by fuddnelson on Feb 1, 2010 4:22 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

It is interesting

But its almost pure fantasy and theres pretty much zero chance of this ever happening.

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by Reddrummer9187 on Feb 1, 2010 4:58 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Andy MacPhail suggested the same thing at Fan Fest

He was asked about realignment and his proposal was rotating divisions with geographic limits like suggested in the article. He said that he didn’t think teams like the Phillies or Nationals would necessarily want to agree with it due to how much harder it’d make their division to see the Yankees and Red Sox and such in their division every few years but that the owners would certainly like the influx in revenue from having those games in their parks.

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by Stacey on Feb 1, 2010 5:03 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Eh

Wouldn’t doing this basically amount to MLB throwing its arms in the air and saying “We give up. There’s no way for anybody to compete with these guys.”?

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by Andrew @ TLC on Feb 1, 2010 8:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

This is what I was thinking...

Generally, I think the commissioner’s office needs to figure out a way to create a salary cap. Enough of this “it’s too difficult” crap. If they can comes up with an idea like this, there should be no problem devising twenty viable salary cap plans.

by Dr Orpheus on Feb 1, 2010 8:30 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It's simple.

Owners (who run the commissioners office) need to put their foot down. Lock out the players at the next CBA until they get a cap. Tell Steinbrenner to STFU.

Donald Fehr is gone. This will help tremendously. Would it lead to a strike? Of course. But this time, the public would overwhelmingly be on the owners’ sides, thanks to Bora$ and the ridiculous offseason the Yankees had last year. No way the strike would last past July. This would have to happen at the BEGINNING of the next offseason before the CBA is up.

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by zknower on Feb 1, 2010 8:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

The much easier way to fix this is to simply return to the balanced schedule.

It worked in baseball for, oh, 90 years or so.

"I doubt he could reach [second base]...mostly cuz his fucking arm was in Aybar's nuts." – twistedlogic

by zknower on Feb 1, 2010 8:52 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

+1

And maybe switch the post-season format to the way the NFL does it. Everybody wins with that playoff format.

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by Reddrummer9187 on Feb 2, 2010 8:47 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'd love for the top two finishers in the league to get some sort of reward

For being better than the other division winner and the wild card.

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by the fix is in on Feb 2, 2010 9:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I took a stab at this on my blog...

Baseball’s New Divisional Structure – http://bit.ly/a0ojux

by joet on Feb 1, 2010 10:34 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

So its basically extended interleague play

Oh by the way what on God’s green field would happen to that?

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by matman008 on Feb 2, 2010 5:57 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Doh

Went back and read it….still curious how it would work though

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by matman008 on Feb 2, 2010 5:59 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Better yet

As I saw discussed elsewhere:

Scarp the divisions entirely. Top 4 teams in each league go to the playoffs.

simple.

"I doubt he could reach [second base]...mostly cuz his fucking arm was in Aybar's nuts." – twistedlogic

by zknower on Feb 3, 2010 10:14 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Scarp?

But enough of that. The problem with that is that it does nothing to reduce the likely frequency of the same depressing, annoying, infuriating teams showing up at the big dance year after year.

by fishoutawata on Feb 8, 2010 3:47 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs