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MLB General Discussion (Official Thread)

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Jaxbuck said:
On the other hand, being small market doesn't seem to stop the Rays or A's from fielding competitive to down right good teams year in and year out. Having good teams in small markets also doesn't seem to do much for attendance.

Big market teams have more room for error but like most things in life, I don't think you try to penalize the successful to make it "fair" for the unsuccessful. Punish teams like the Reds and Pirates for consistently failing to have a front office that can identify and develop talent.
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In any other competitively "fair" pro sport does a team trade a player near the start of his prime like Trae Turner solely for financial reasons? It's one thing if a player wants traded. It's quite another thing that it is so common that MLB teams trade players in their prime solely because the players are about to be free agents and the teams know they won't pay the cost to keep them due to wildly different financial situations amongst teams in the league. It doesn't have to be this way.
 
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DZ83CK said:
In any other competitively "fair" pro sport does a team trade a player near the start of his prime like Trae Turner solely for financial reasons? It's one thing if a player wants traded. It's quite another thing that it is so common that MLB teams trade players in their prime solely because the players are about to be free agents and the teams know they won't pay the cost to keep them due to wildly different financial situations amongst teams in the league. It doesn't have to be this way.
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I'm with you that the economics of baseball are unique but I don't think the solution is as simple as a salary cap.

You have a lot of small market teams that use it as an excuse to rake in the money and put a shit product on the field decade in and decade out. Find a way to make it hurt financially to suck on a 5 year weighted curve or something to go along with the current luxury tax and competitive draft pick tools. See if that wouldn't shake some of these nickel and dime owners up from putting their great great grandson in as the GM and shit like that.
 
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Field of Dreams Game: MLB unveils uniforms, stadium for White Sox vs. Yankees in Iowa

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Next Thursday, the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees will meet in the long-awaited Field of Dreams Game in Dyersville, Iowa. The game was originally scheduled to be played last Aug. 13, but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Field of Dreams Game will be the first ever major-league game played in Iowa, and MLB constructed a temporary 8,000-seat ballpark adjacent to the property used in the film. The White Sox are prominently featured in the film, hence their inclusion in the event. The Yankees are the Yankees and a ratings draw.

On Thursday, MLB released updated images of the temporary ballpark, and also revealed the special edition uniforms the White Sox and Yankees will wear during the Field of Dreams Game. Here's the ballpark:

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Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...rms-stadium-for-white-sox-vs-yankees-in-iowa/
 
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I really like the Field of Dreams as a 1-off. Not so much as a regular occurrence. Clearly MLB is planning on this being a thing long-term. It sure looked like they installed permanent lights there.

It would be fine one game a year, let every franchise play there once, kind of like NFL London games. I'm not going to be quite as interested next year and surely the general popularity will go down the more they do it. It will still be good for ratings, but moreso for the respective franchises involved rather than the sport in general.
 
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