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MLB 2018

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mezzrow

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Pitches and catchers report, yadda, yadda, yadda.

A new season is a a-borning and MLB is a verdant refuge from BFS when you've had enough of it all. There is always hope in February and March in the Grapefruit and Cactus leagues. Here's your 2018 MLB thread. Best wishes to your respective clubs, but a little more to the Cubs.

Check the MLB news wires and you'll know why the following has been posted by this happy Cubs fan. We can explain the concept of a power rotation to even Rafael now...



(watch his arm fall off in March)
 
mezzrow said:
Check the MLB news wires and you'll know why the following has been posted by this happy Cubs fan. We can explain the concept of a power rotation to even Rafael now...

(watch his arm fall off in March)
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Very good pick up is Darvish and hopefuly for your sake his arm doesn't fall off in March haha!!
 
Welp the Mariners biggest offseason acquisition was Dee Gordon. A very good player. Of course he's an infielder (2nd base and SS) that we acquired to be our Center Fielder. No big deal. :Blink:

Who knows...it might work. He's got speed to burn...yes, that's me rationalizing with the Mariners organization.
 

SerenityNigh said:
Apparently the STRangers are toying with the idea of a 6-man rotation
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You'll enjoy this... How to stop teams from tanking? Relegation in baseball?

...if baseball were to adopt a pro/rel system, the worst team in each major league would have to play in Triple-A the next year. They would be replaced in the majors by the champions of the International League and the PCL. And so on down the line.

What are the benefits of this system?

For one, it would end tanking. No franchise would ever risk getting sent down to the minors by not putting their best team on the field at all times. At the trade deadline, instead of the teams at the bottom of the standings trading away all their best players, most of them would be adding players to avoid relegation.

That’s another benefit of the system. Remember in 2012 and 2013 when it was hard to watch a Cubs game because who cared if they won or lost? Under this system, you’d better believe you would care. If you think a pennant race is nerve-wracking for fans and players, just wait until two bad teams start fighting for their very survival in the majors at the end of the year.

Another boon of this system is that fans in smaller cities have a chance to see major league baseball in their city. Wouldn’t it be neat for the fans in Des Moines or Knoxville see their cities be in the major leagues competing against the Yankees, Dodgers and Cubs? Even a smaller city like Peoria or South Bend would have a chance. For example, Hoffenheim in Germany is a little village of around 3,000 people and it has a team in the top division, thanks to the patronage of a German software mogul. Even the larger metro area of which it’s a part has a population fewer than 40,000. Would you like to see Mark Cuban buy a team in Rockford and take them all the way to the majors? Fans in Rockford might.

https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/201...-promotion-and-relegation-scott-boras-tanking
 


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