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Originally Posted by jbergey22
Slotting is good for a number of reasons. It gives the teams leverage against the players as well. It makes sure that guys like Porcello dont fall in the draft when they should go on teams that need him much worse than the Tigers did.
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Maybe so. Only problem is the MLBPA will never agree to it.
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Originally Posted by Jason Moyer
Share 50% of the television revenue and tier the draft pick bonuses and everything will even out pretty quickly.
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National television revenue was already shared equally. The current revenue sharing system calls for a base 31% of total local revenue (minus stadium expenses) to be shared, with additional sharing for lower income teams by altering the split of national central fund revenue.
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Originally Posted by Goody
You say that like its nothing. Like its not a big deal. Wow. Just wow.
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You keep harping on the Yankees. But I don't see you complaining about how the Atlanta Braves made the post-season 11 times in the last 15 years.
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Originally Posted by Goody
Out of 14 teams going for 4 spots in the playoffs. 1 team took one of those spots 93% of the time.
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Your math is off. There is only one guaranteed playoff slot for each division, and that's first place. The other slot is the wild card, and that naturally has many more teams competing for it since it's a league-wide playoff position.
I don't see you praising the fairly equitable distribution of playoff qualifers in the AL Central, AL West, NL Central, and NL West. Why is that? Why are you fixated on the AL East to the exclusion of the rest of MLB?
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Originally Posted by Goody
The Red Sox went the past 9 out of 15 years...AND THEY'RE IN THE SAME DIVISION!
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The Yankees and Red Sox are clearly top-notch organizations to have that kind of consistent success. Of course, divisionally weighted schedules where those two clubs can beat up on the Rays, Orioles, and Blue Jays some 54 times a year certainly helps pad their records, giving them an advantage for the wild card.
Dump interleague play, return to a balanced schedule, and scrap the divisions. Play like that for fifteen years and I suspect the Yankees and Red Sox playoff qualifying won't be quite as good as it has been the last fifteen years.