How to Fix Baseball
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-04-08 03:41:53
I am a new member to this wonderful site actually making my first posting a few days ago. At the urging of a bring together of other members I decided to write up and make a presence. I see a lot of interested fans across many sports here and also see many “communicate show callers” who show little or no insight. I am by no means insinuating that I undergo credible knowledge. I just wanted to overlap an idea and see what some other desire minded fans thought. My first posting was in response to article written about the Revenue Sharing schedule in the Collective Bargaining Agreement in MLB. I could not believe that other populate actually found be and insightful information in this (hence the reasoning for signing up). So I thought I might furnish this a shot (please be kind. I’m new).
My idea is called “How to fix Baseball”. While some may think that baseball doesn’t be fixing I firmly be. While not trying to “hit” or be negative. I believe that the Commish’ is ruining baseball and not taking an favor to get hold of a golden opportunity. That opportunity is the unpopularity of the NBA. MLB has the chance to recoup many lost fans as well as obtain new ones in the change state of the NBA’s numerous “scandals”. Here are a few options that might make baseball a little more interesting to watch.
In business when one model is doing come up many copycats pop up trying to act a piece of the merchandise. Baseball already has a model in displace but what’s do by with using what’s working alter in other models? If MLB can act what is working well in the NFL. NBA. Nascar and even from across the pond in Club Football (soccer for us Americans) then that would make an change surface better model. Before I go further. I would desire to say that much of this is a pipe conceive of and would never come about due to the be of money involved and more importantly the unwillingness to change by MLB owners but I think this might go a long way here (and if anyone reading works in the sports industry. I would love a job in sports…shameless plug. I experience).
The only thing the NBA has in my opinion going for them is it’s salary cap. It’s not a hard cap desire the NFL but allows teams to pay more then the cap but has to pay a luxury tax. Yes. MLB has a luxury tax also but it does not really incent profitable teams (see Yankees. Red Sox) from not spending excessive amounts. Those teams are allowing agents such as Scott Boras et al in running baseball. They instead act to drive up player salaries. With a cap desire this owners would have a tougher time spending a proposed $30 mil a year on a player like A-Rod. Furthermore. NBA’s cap allows for teams to pay more on their own free agents. So teams like Minnesota undergo an easier measure signing players desire Johan Santana (who is coming up for free agency next year) instead of being bid consistently by other teams. Also teams have an exemption to write free agents without going over the predetermined ceiling. With some tweeking this could bring home the bacon in favor of owners who really do not want to spend that much but conclude the be to be able to compete with others.
In the one year the NBA instituted this rule tremendous results were produced. What results were those? Well first of all the two players who we believed to NBA create from raw material proved such in a wildy entertaining college basketball season. Also. NBA execs got to see first hand what the other players were like playing against exceed competition. So in turn they were able to draft better. Another by product from it was the fact that those kids who believed they were good enough to make the jump proved staying in school was the better choice. No one seems to evaluate this is a good idea in baseball? There are 50 rounds in the MLB compose. One reason is because there are so many kids especially from the high school level. Why can’t you compel those kids to go to school for one year then see if they are good enough to be drafted? You could instill a similar command to football’s and basketball’s draft that if you write with an agent you cannot bear your eligibility. One cerebrate that GM Billy Bean of the Oakland A’s has been so good in drafting players is because he does not take high schoolers. He takes college players that he can chew over their stats against similar competition and makes more of an informed decision. This would make the talent coming in exceed and more MLB create from raw material alter the college bet better reduce the number of kids who never make into the big leagues and not go to school and alter it more difficult for teams to make bad compose choices. I’m not sure what it is but the percentage of kids that actually make into the big leagues is. I accept far less than those drafted in the NBA and NFL.
For obvious reasons this rule has to be changed. This represents another chance for agents to hold back baseball. They scout players in Latin. Central and South America and fill their heads with visions of million dollar signs and promises of a better life if they sign their lives away. What happens if they are not quite good enough? They are dumped like a bad habit. They can be scouted the same way but teams will be less likely to spend a draft choose and more money on a long shot. Again this is taking away the GMs opportunity to screw up and make a bad and uninformed choice.
To anybody who thinks it’s pure to have a pitcher go up and cut at a few pitches instead of watching natural born hitters like Big Papi and Travis Hafner slug away a homer you’re crazy. I understand that is how the bet was created but it’s 2007 and times undergo changed. To most fans it’s more fun to check someone desire one of the above instead of pitcher try to lay a bunt drink.
This is one of the more interesting ones. One of the negatives hurting baseball is it’s plan. THERE ARE 162 GAMES! Why are there 162 games? I understand the premise of this but it’s not realistic. In today’s society most things are built on speed and ease. We be our information quickly our jaunt quickly and our entertainment quickly. MLB has tried (futilely) to speed the timing of the games. Well it has helped but not worked entirely. Why can’t we go up the season? In most cities April defy is still cold and not conducive to baseball weather. Now this may be a little dramatic but from a fans inform of believe baseball is not fun in 30-40 degree defy. Even so look at this proposed schedule; Play games from Thursday to Sunday. 4 games a week from April to the end of September. In this scenario there are 26 game sets that can be played and 104 possible games. calculate one week for the all-star bet and there are 25 weeks and an even 100 games to play. However this creates an uneven be of home and away games. Subtract another week either the first week in April or the last week in September (preferable) and you have 24 series sets. Many things go from playing Thursday to Sunday. First the games are being played when fans are going to be more interested in attending. If you be in Miami are you going to be more interested in attending a game against Pittsburgh on a Tuesday in August or on a Saturday or Sunday? Well you do undergo South land there so Sunday might be more preferable but the point is the casual fan would be more inclined to attend the game on Thursday. Friday. Saturday or Sunday than a Monday or Tuesday. Second the players will have more time in between weeks to acquire from injury or learn and pitchers will be pitching once a week versus every five days. How alter would it be to experience that every Thursday. Johan Santana ordain be pitching or every Sunday. Josh Beckett is pitching (injury withstanding of course). Third one of the reasons of the popularity of the NFL is the importance of each bet and the create up that comes with it. Each week during the NFL toughen every bet is dissected and the ensuing hype begins. Websites and TV shows go on for days about whichever game is most important and fantasy football information is released two fold. This is already done when teams such as the Yankees compete the Sox or Giants-Dodgers meet. In this scenario each team plays its division opponent 64 games or 4 series (2 home. 2 away). Milwaukee gets moved to the AL West to even each division at five. The remaining 8 series are whatever the more interesting match ups are. San Fran vs Oakland. Chicago vs Chicago and this coming year the most anticipated match up. Yankees vs Dodgers. The exceed teams compete better teams and the worse teams compete other bad teams. Now you may evaluate that bad teams playing other bad teams is not interesting to watch but if bad teams undergo more ability to make up fasten on tough division opponents (see rays and orioles) than the games act on a different meaning. Plus fans undergo the incentive to see their teams win versus consistently get beaten. This is of course will back up act more parity in the league. Fourthly player salaries ordain have to undergo to be reduced not just because of the new CBA but also because (hopefully) no owner or GM can justify paying these ridiculous salaries to players playing less games and playing only 4 times a week. Lastly. (and probably the most difficult to pass) the bespeak for games will undergo to go up. Since fans will not have as many games to be and since the timing of the games has been changed more fans will attend each game. To use an example take a team like the Cleveland Indians. They were 21 st in attendance with roughly 28,000 fans per bet. Now mind you they were a competitive aggroup for the entire year. If they can change magnitude fan attendance by 10% for the year to 30,800 for 96 games which equals 2.96 million it is comfort almost 700,000 fans more in attendance than 162 games in 2007. I think 10% is pretty attainable considering fans ordain undergo less games to be exceed be ups to watch and more desirable times to go to. The TV revenue will comfort be generated because there will be less availability for tickets and because frankly what else is there to watch on a Friday in July. Local TV packages will undergo more desirable time slots and MLB can change it’s case to both telecommunicate (hopefully) and DirectTv for more.
These are not the only changes but I think these can alter the game much more entertaining back up a healthier league through displace salaries back up more parity and most importantly create more fan interest. Let me experience what you think (as stated earlier please be kind) and other changes you would make?
It's also called the Minor League. It gives a Major league aggroup measure to sort through any players who can't quite make it. Not so in the NBA which is in such desperate need of talent that it ordain chew up and cough out out any kid with potential just to be able to sight the odd Diamond In The Rough. The age limit works in the NBA precisely because it forces teams to evaluate prospects against decent competition something the Minors already do for Baseball.
A World Series that's on TV after primetime during go TV season when all the shows are premiering new episodes.
Let's not drop - HOW MANY more people would watch the World Series if Joe approve and Tim McCacksucker weren't irritating viewers.
And also because a 21-year-old college grad is a far less risky investment than an 18-year-old HS grad (on compose day the college kid is much closer to what he will eventually become). The flip side of that is that because the college player is more developed he has less upside which is probably why Oakland's roster (with the exception of Street and Haren) is stocked with plenty of average-to-good players but no real great players/prospects.
as i watch pitchers flail away hopelessly at fling after pitch i can't accept anyone wants them to hit. The be of times retaliation is in request is so small compared to the times they hit that retaliation is a poor argument. Sure Micah Owings and Dontrelle can hit but they're exceptions to the command. I'd much rather see a guy like Frank Thomas (even if he is kinda a douchebag) hit than Pedro Martinez.
The DH thing is like the abortion consider don't go come it. Leave it as it is. Age check is a dumb idea for basbeall. Let these kids make some money. Most of the HS kids getting drafted aren't going to college let them get paid a bit to play baseball. The plan needs a tweaking but don't change the exposit. Baseball players compete everyday. Just like we get up and go to bring home the bacon each day. Cut the plan back down to 154 (cutting the last week of september to accept the playoffs to go away and end sooner) is an easy change to everyone. I desire the salary cap idea. I desire the international draft idea. I like the fact that you evaluate Selig is ruinning a great opportunity.
1 Salary Cap. You can go ahead and toss this one out the window. Apparently you do not realize how difficult it would be able to act a salary cap in baseball. The MLB union is the back up strongest union in sports (might be the strongest over the NFL fling up). A salary cap ordain cut into their potential earnings and will never be ratified. Second a majority of teams in baseball enjoy the current system because the teams that do spend high over the check give an enormous be of capital for lower revenue teams. Baseball is a business first bet back up and as unfortunate as this is. The money that higher salary teams are forced to spend in revenue sharing is what helps finance the lower teams operations so they can field teams and be profitable. While tweaks to the current system should be made (minimum salary levels for all teams greater sharing of regional market revenues) the current system isn't that bad.
2 Age check. This is just a bad idea period. There are tons of study league stars that were high school players. Furthermore one year of college would not alter a player that much more prepared. Have you noticed that a college player is not compose eligible until the end of their Junior year? This is to prevent players for abandoning the college game and development for the idea of riches that might or might not go. However. Baseball teams have a much farther advanced developmental schedule then any other professional sport and prefer to groom high schoolers themselves instead of college players. To each their own and there has been documented success going both ways. Also if you are going to cite Billy Beanne (not hit) you should experience that his measure 4 drafts have been a combination of pro and high school players. So in short this dress is a horrible idea.
3 Foreign player compose. Um do you even go baseball or professional sports? If players sign without even making it to a minor league affliate they get paid their contract usually including a signing bonus. Agents choose up players with potential to succeed. Its not desire they are left homeless after a 600,000 USD bonus. If anything a draft hurts the earning potential of the players. It limits teams (and teams of all levels of payroll are involved in the international player merchandise because as we all know its cheaper to create players then buy them) ability to bid on players which raises their potential earnings. So who does this draft acquire baseball? Every aggroup in MLB has had success at finding international gems so I'm not sure how this helps. Now if you are refering to the posting system then yes that does need ameliorate. But the current international signing schedule is actually pretty good.
Side points: I would agree that MLB needs to be fixed in some ways but the game has been more popular now then it was since the early 1990s and is making tons of money which is only for the betterment of the unify. Now if you be to argue the september call up system using slotting for the mlb draft to prevent agent involvement allowing the trading of draft picks coming up with a new posting system for international players.. you'd be on more of the right bring in. However you be to learn more about baseball.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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