Tiger337

Yeah, I like a lot of the things they do in principle, but they would not be an easy team to love. I don't hope for the Tigers end up like them...although it sure beats what the Tigers have been doing the last several years!

It was a joke combining the ideas that you present these charts a lot and Logue has some of the worst percentile ranks I have seen. I think the ranks are interesting and can be instructive in certain cases, but they are not predictive in general.

Zach Logue's numbers are not impressive. I dare chasfh to pull out his percentile charts. On the the bright side, he is a lefty with good control.

He apparently has a good curveball. Curvin' Castro.

I also view the playoffs as a tournament separate from the regular season. However, because teams are not significantly rewarded for regular season performance, pennant races no longer exist which I think is a shame. There is also not much motivation to be a great team when a pretty good team gets pretty much the same reward. It will get worse when they eventually expand to 16 teams and you see .500 regularly getting into the big tournament.

I see the baseball season as unique in that they play almost every day and a team needs to be constructed to handle that. A big part of being a great team is being able to withstand that 162-game grind. A lot of that goes away if there are too many teams in the playoffs. it's like running a marathon, taking the the best 12 runners and then having a series of one-mile runs to determine the winner. It makes no sense.

It was due to an injury. It's not like he mysteriously lost his skills. Still, they need to be really confident that he is completely recovered after his time off.

Why is Harris' wife with Metzler?

How hot is she?

It wouldn't limit playoff teams, because "American sports fans love brackets". It COULD be an alternative if the goal is maintaining interest in cities which have losing teams. This is all theoretical.

So, more of the same. I just hope he does it better and quicker than the previous regime.

No, it's not. Teams that battle for the playoffs do the same thing. They try to achieve the best record so the can advance.

As Chasfh stated, the teams in the bottom tier would battle for the right to be re-instated in to the big league. I think that would add to fan interest of losing teams.

"the last good war"

SB is not all wrong here. I do believe we are on the right side in this war, but I don't believe the the United States is involved in the war for wholly magnanimous reasons. We never are.

My concern is not parity, but rather too many teams in the playoffs! I think expanded playoffs ruin the entire essence of a baseball season which I view as a marathon. I am not overly concerned with parity. I like that there are good teams and bad teams. I like dynasties and like when dynasty teams get defeated. If every team has the same chance, it makes the season seem random. I know others don't necessarily share that view.

I would agree that Haases is probably not a regular catcher on a first division team. I see him more as a John Wockenfuss.

There could be tiers of leagues all under the MLB umbrella. The relgated teams go to the bottom tier, maybe 8 teams which will play each other most often. They still can share in the revenue. The only punishment is they wouldn't participate in the playoffs, but they weren't going to make it anyway.

Yes, it's no risk with possibly small reward. I like it.

I think some are assuming that relegation would have to be done the same way here as it is done internationally. n.

I don't think it's irrelevant. I see relegation as an alternative to expanded playoffs. Many feel thatrelegation is a terrible idea. I feel the same way about expanded playoffs. I realize relegation will never happen and is just a theoretical argument. It's like talking about deadening the ball. It will never happen, but I feel like it would solve problems with the game which I think exist.

Wow, all of the sudden Correa is a Met and will play along side Lindor. It happened over night. I don't think we've ever seen that happen so fast before where a deal falls through due to a physical and another team swoops in immediately.

I'd rather see the players make the money than have it all go to the owners. Everything that is done to structure pro sports leagues is done to help owners make profits. It has nothing to do with competitiveness or fairness. In the end, they just put everyone in the playoffs and everbody is happy.

It sounds like NCAA football. It sounds like a problem which is caused by something other than relegation.