Baseball

Congratulations to Dominican Republic going undefeated in Caribbean Series

Congratulations to Melbourne Aces for their ABL championship.

odd watching game and 'snap lockdown' announced by the Melbourne authorities... at 5pm they announced 5 day lockdown - stay home, no visitors, CANT CROSS STATE BORDERS - live during the game... ZERO Fs given by fans... matter of fact crowd surged as game went on - LOL


very odd seeing how baseball traditions adapted in other places... and sorta neat.

pitchers & catchers reporting THIS WEEK!

 

watching the on field ceremonies after ABL championship... refreshing... they just handed the guys their championship medals and the tournament MVP trophy was less than a foot tall... ZERO police visible ... NONE... fans stayed in their seats not rushing the field... friends and family joined players on field ...

and of course Ace the groundskeeper assistant ( his pet blue heeler ) was there chilling like a boss - LOL


the players seemed genuinely happy to be there

 

MLB needs a CAP, an actual CAP, because this current taxing the big rosters a tad and throwing the nickles at the small market teams aint working


at least for the small market teams


I see zero chance of it changing because there are a handful of teams, yankees Braves Cubs - off the top of my head, with significant 'local' brodcasting arrangements and those teams will never share that revenue

until MLB can tackle that there is zero chance at a meaningful CAP

which sucks


NFL has been puzzifying the game for years and years, but at least every team has the same CAP to spend on talent. I wish they would put in a Staff & FO CAP as well.. because currently the staff & FO make or break a team

 

MLB unveils 120-team minor league realignment

as a minor league baseball fan, somewhat, I cant fully get onboard with this... it is just a damn shame is all.

As it stands MLB controls baseball - period

at least MiLB salaries went up a tad, which is nice. SHOULD be more like $600-700 instead of $400ish IMO. So many players wind up never signing MLB contracts and are 29 years old with zero skills and huge debts cause MiLB salaries are so miserable. Some get connected and have good winter jobs to make up for the lowball pay in MiLB

 

this one is so bizarre its hardly worth mentioning... but MLB has decided that the negro leagues were MLB and has incorporated their records into MLB history... LOL

I have done more reading than vast majority of people about baseball history and the best argument that can be made was that the best negro league teams were on par with the best AAA teams of the day. There clearly were some individual players who were MLB quality... no reasonable person disputes this... but vast majority of negro league players would NOT have been MLB quality. Some not even close.

soooo... how does this affect things... well they have added plenty of counter stats to plenty of MLB players who had 'cups of coffee' in the negro leagues.

just raw race pandering from MLB