Imagine a Twenty team league

[ugolini78]

I know fans of the Dbacks, Reds, and all ten of the D-Ray fans will be mad. But imagine a Premier league. With just twenty teams. I think this idea would not only improve MLB but AAA. You could Expand the PCL and IL to 20 teams each. That way all MLB teams would have two AAA teams, places like Pittsburgh playing Buffalo, Indy, Lousville playing Kansas City and Milwaukee.

Imagine 250 of today's current major leagues playing in AAA.


NEW MLB SUPER League

AL EAST AL WEST NL EAST NL WEST
Yankees Rangers Mets Giants
Red Sox Mariners Braves Dodgers
Blue Jays White Sox Nationals Padres
Tigers Angels Phillies Cardinals
Indians Rockies Cubs Astros

[Astro]

I know fans of the Dbacks, Reds, and all ten of the D-Ray fans will be mad. But imagine a Premier league. With just twenty teams. I think this idea would not only improve MLB but AAA. You could Expand the PCL and IL to 20 teams each. That way all MLB teams would have two AAA teams, places like Pittsburgh playing Buffalo, Indy, Lousville playing Kansas City and Milwaukee.

Imagine 250 of today's current major leagues playing in AAA.


NEW MLB SUPER League

AL EAST AL WEST NL EAST NL WEST
Yankees Rangers Mets Giants
Red Sox Mariners Braves Dodgers
Blue Jays White Sox Nationals Padres
Tigers Angels Phillies Cardinals
Indians Rockies Cubs Astros

Why keep the Blue Jays?

[ugolini78]

City of 5 million, Potential 30 M (only team in the country) strong ownership that owns TV station $75 million pay roll. Average attendence, Wealthy city. With the CDN dollar improving, bigger budgets. Thats way.

[Astro]

So... why get rid of the Diamondbacks then? Or the D-Rays... if theyre the only team in Florida (since I dont see the Marlins listed)

[ugolini78]

D-rays attendence is horrible, their team is already like a minor leauge team. Ownership issues. Unless MLB gets a real cap the Royals, A's, D-Rays, Marlins, Pirates might as well be Minor league teams. Maybe teams could move up and down from league to leauge. I just think Triple A ball would benefit huge.

[Astro]

D-rays attendence is horrible, their team is already like a minor leauge team. Ownership issues. Unless MLB gets a real cap the Royals, A's, D-Rays, Marlins, Pirates might as well be Minor league teams. Maybe teams could move up and down from league to leauge. I just think Triple A ball would benefit huge.

In 2-3 years the D-Rays will be contenders... if they were in the NL they would already be contenders

The A's have made the playoffs a lot more often, recently, than the Jays... The Marlins have won 2 World Series titles

[Rose4theHall]

D-rays attendence is horrible, their team is already like a minor leauge team. Ownership issues. Unless MLB gets a real cap the Royals, A's, D-Rays, Marlins, Pirates might as well be Minor league teams. Maybe teams could move up and down from league to leauge. I just think Triple A ball would benefit huge.

You may also want to research this. The a's are far from a "minor league team"

[Sean Casey]

I think that with the steady increase in foreign-born players, it will eventually become necessary to increase the number of teams rather than cut it down by a third. I'm also a bit confused by your choices for teams to eliminate, because it seems to be based more on recent performance than anything else.