MLB Considering Playoff Expansion

[Northside Blues]

I'd love for MLB to move to a relegation and promotion system like soccer leagues. I know I am in the minority of that.

 

16 Team "A" League

14 Team "B" League

 

Have 162 game schedules interplaying A and B. Make sure something like 100 games are against your "league".

 

Top 4 from each league make a two series playoffs. Bottom 4 of A league move down to B league. Top 4 of B league move to A league. Will never happen but I like it.

[SouthSideRyan]

I still say relegation torpedoes teams like the Pirates and Royals for good.

[Northside Blues]

I still say relegation torpedoes teams like the Pirates and Royals for good.

 

No, they could have a three or four year stretch of being good like the Rays and Brewers. It also gives them an incentive to make small gains. Sure, they can't compete with say the Yankees, but it gives them a little incentive to add ten mil to the payroll and try to get into their "playoffs" and compete with like-minded teams.

 

Though attendance because of being in the B league will suffer.

[SouthSideRyan]

 

Though attendance because of being in the B league will suffer.

 

Which will kill the franchise.

 

The Rays already can't hold on to their players, if they were in a B league from the word go they'd have been contracted by now.

[Exile on Waveland]

I love relegation for soccer, but don't think it's feasible at all for US pro sports.

 

I personally don't love the league/cup system -- excepting, of course, the Champions League which is outstanding -- other than the added relevance of the regular season winner (i.e., almost certainly the best team). I wouldn't be in favor of importing the league/cup system, but I do think people would watch (there would be some teeth-gnashing initially, but I really see little evidence that the US sporting public wouldn't embrace watching their teams play in such a format -- heck, exhibition/preseason/spring training games are often well attended).

[Northside Blues]

 

Though attendance because of being in the B league will suffer.

 

Which will kill the franchise.

 

The Rays already can't hold on to their players, if they were in a B league from the word go they'd have been contracted by now.

 

 

I don't see this as a problem. It's the Rays.

[SouthSideRyan]

If you have no problem with contraction, then that's a different story. Fans will view the relegation system as another way to separate the haves and have nots. The divide between big and small market would grow, and the B squads would never compete.

[Northside Blues]

Less teams in the world means less teams for the Cubs to compete with and get that elusive WS. Statistics don't lie! The Cubs made it to the world series 10 times out of 57 chances before expansion.

[shnsajax]

Less teams in the world means less teams for the Cubs to compete with and get that elusive WS. Statistics don't lie! The Cubs made it to the world series 10 times out of 57 chances before expansion.

 

Why would the Cubs be in the "A" league?