The only thing I would change is forcing batters to stay in the box. I get tired of watching them step out and adjust their gloves, etc. Just stop already.
But your argument was that scaling back the season, if it’s 10 percent that’s 16 games to 148.
Does that really fix the problem you spoke to? Does game 45 of 148 have any more viewership attraction than game 52 of 162?
That doesn’t check out to me as a fix to the problem you have. I don’t have an answer to that question, except to say baseball isn’t pairing down their season to 82 games to put it on par with NBA. That’s just not happening.
It alleviates the problem someone getting shabizzled while also stopping the infinite breaks and teams from proverbially shortening the game, not in duration, but in innings. It's like you have all these specialized pitchers and you just take the offense out of it. Baseball needs more offense, not less.
I'd cut it by 1/3. 4 month regular season as opposed to 6, ala the NFL. I realize that will likely never happen, but that's what I would do. Fwiw I think the NBA should be the same. I think it would be great for each major sports league to kinda have their own exclusive hold on a part of the calendar. Give the NBA January-April, with playoffs in May (they need to shorten the shit out of their playoffs), baseball gets May-August with playoffs in September, then football gets September-December with playoffs in January. This is obviously a lot of pie in the sky stuff that would never happen, but I just don't think a sports regular season needs to last more than 4 months and playoffs shouldn't be more than a month. Tighten these things up and make the individual games mean more.
rest - http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2...more-coming-20A single trade deadline, an All-Star Game election day and a million-dollar bonus for the Home Run Derby winner will be implemented in 2019 -- and a three-batter minimum for pitchers and roster expansion will happen in 2020 -- as part of a deal between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association.
Spurred by labor relations discord amid a second consecutive free-agent market that has left players disappointed, the mid-collective-bargaining-agreement negotiations represent a step forward between two sides that had squabbled privately and publicly.
Perhaps the most important part of the deal isn't the elimination of August trades, the tweaking of All-Star Game starter selections, the incentives for stars to participate in the derby, the elimination of one-out relievers or the addition of a 26th player next year. It's the provision that the sides will begin discussing labor issues imminently, far earlier than they typically would with a CBA that doesn't expire until December 2021.
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