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Originally posted by DeployEloy View Posthttps://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/...se-effort.html
Wonder what other team they would also add to keep an even number of teams in the league. Is Montreal a possibility, or do they move somewhere west like Portland?
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Originally posted by Mohoney View Post
Now that MLB’s staunch opposition to all things gambling has gone the way of the Dodo, perhaps Steve Stone’s dream of a Las Vegas baseball team finally becomes a reality?
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Originally posted by TDog View Post
Las Vegas would be just about the worst place for MLB to expand. But even cities that aren't on the brink of crisis would be bad MLB expansion sites. Baseball needs minor league expansion, not major league expansion.
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Originally posted by Mohoney View Post
Minor league expansion makes no money for parent clubs. You will see contraction before you see expansion.
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Originally posted by Mohoney View PostI think MLB will be just fine financially despite losing the exposure provided by minor league affiliates in Great Falls, Montana and Bluefield, West Virginia.
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Originally posted by TDog View Post
Major league baseball isn't just fine right now. It's not on a path to being just fine, and expansion wouldn't help. Minor league baseball has always been challenged, but you're not going to get more people subscribing to MLB coverage packages from Great Falls, Montana, if you abolish the Pioneer League. What you're doing is killing national interest interest in baseball.
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Originally posted by Dumpjerry View PostSo many strongly worded assertions with so much actual information about MLB finances not being known (most of it is just not public information).
My concern is for the decreasing popularity of baseball in America, an issue the commissioner is oblivious to. Baseball is bigger than MLB, but MLB bears the burden of guardianship of the game.
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Originally posted by Mohoney View Post
I completely disagree with the premise that Major League Baseball is in any sort of trouble whatsoever. The league generated $10.7 billion in revenue last year. If a few dozen cattle ranchers in Billings don’t subscribe to MLB TV, I think they will still be OK.
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Originally posted by Krs1 View Post
I hope these teams find independent funding, because many of these locations aren't the one-horse town you make them out to be. Hub cities like Billings are actually a strong part of meaningful markets for all things, including sports entertainment.
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Originally posted by Mohoney View Post
Considering the money being spent by MLB to sustain these teams, I’m not even convinced that the entire endeavor is a net-positive for MLB, let alone something that will be sorely missed.
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I would guess there are teams that are struggling financially and teams that are doing very well. (Duh) I doubt that one size fits all. If the minor leagues are eliminated does MLB go to an NFL model where only college players need apply? Or does that just apply to the poorer teams, while the Yankees and the Dodgers use the poorer teams as their minor league affiliates -- like the Yankees/A's in the 50s? In that case we may need MLB expansion to provide more poor teams for grooming Big Apple players. Or is that where free agency has already put us?
Four Sox Gold Gloves in 1960.
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