Other Winter Meetings Rumors/News

[Clem Fandango]

I'd love to see a baseball team on the Gulf Coast, but football dominates and the Gulf coast is already littered with minor league teams. Oh well

[dew1679666265]

It'd be really cool to see a team in Nashville, though their existence would probably kill the Predators.

 

It'd give me a second favorite baseball team, at least, for when the Cubs are eliminated.

[ctcf]

A third team in New York/Newark would probably be the best for TV. The New York CSA has a population of 22mil, so that's about 7 mil per team. For comparison, Boston's CSA is a little over 7 mil total. A team would take years to survive in either city. The hardcore fans already have their allegiances and the casual fans do too. The Mets were able to survive as a knew team because the Giants and Dodgers left only five or six years earlier so their fans were "free agents" so to speak. That won't happen this time around.

 

If you go by actual TV markets size, largest without teams

 

#13 Tampa/St Petersburg

#19 Orlando

#20 Sacramento

#23 Portland

#25 Charlotte

#26 Indianapolis

#28 Raleigh Durham

#29 Hartford

#30 Nashville

#32 Columbus

#34 Milwaukee (Smallest in MLB)

 

Portland, Sacramento and Orlando all only have one pro team in the big four (all in the NBA too). Vegas, I believe, is the largest CSA without a professional team. Hartford is the largest TV market without a professional team, it looks like, though one would think they are heavy NY influenced. Greenville SC would be the largest TV market without one if you don't include Hartford (#36). Vegas is #43.

 

Hartford please. I'd actually break my "two teams in a sport" rule.

[BCVM22]

Bartlett to Padres deal finally went through. Rays get RHPs Brandon Gomes and Adam Russell, LHP Cesar Ramos and IF Cole Figueroa.

[Clem Fandango]

Bartlett to Padres deal finally went through. Rays get RHPs Brandon Gomes and Adam Russell, LHP Cesar Ramos and IF Cole Figueroa.

 

4 players for Jason Bartlett?

[BCVM22]

http://twitter.com/#!/MLB/status/15912929299800064

 

Apparently. I have no idea who any of those players are save Adam Russell.

 

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/G/Brandon-Gomes.shtml

 

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/R/Cesar-Ramos.shtml

 

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/F/Cole-Figueroa.shtml

 

Guess the Padres really needed to someone to take the Eckstein role for them. Bartlett can claim the hotter wife, though (Kelly Bartlett vs. Ashley Eckstein).

[Guest]

Bartlett to Padres deal finally went through. Rays get RHPs Brandon Gomes and Adam Russell, LHP Cesar Ramos and IF Cole Figueroa.

 

4 players for Jason Bartlett?

 

I think the original agreed on deal that fell through was just Russell and Ramos, but someone failed their physical? I guess they wanted the guy anyway, but got two more guys thrown in on the deal as well. Interesting.

[BCVM22]

Padres get a PTBNL along with Bartlett, so I guess that explains some of it.

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-rays-padrestrade