Do you think Mlb should get rid of some teams & if so which ones in your opinion?

Question

I think they should get rid of the Marlins(i know they won 2 championships 1 against the Yanks but they still have no fanbase whatsover & an owner that doesn't care for the team) the Devilrays & maybe even the Nationals(Expos).

Answer 1

I don't believe you need to get rid of any teams. There are several in need of management change and/or a new location to play. The Steinbrenner philosophy is win at any cost but there are too many other owners who operate their franchise as a business and they believe it should be profitable at the expense of fielding a competitive team. The teams that are down in attendance have management that operate under the later. It all comes down to a business decision at the expense of the fans which creates the situation you refer too.

Answer 2

I don't think any team needs to be contracted, the Devil Rays and Marlins might need to move. I don't understand how the Marlins can't get people to see their games - they've won 2 World Series. I can understand why some people would want the Royals to go, but KC is a great baseball city. The Royals fans that are still there are passionate about their team and I think there would be a big backlash if KC was contracted.

Answer 3

I say build a stadium in Orlando.

There would always be people there.

Move the Marlins or Devil Rays there.

It would be hard to expand again, I think that franchise relocations would be good.

Las Vegas, wants to be a sports town again, and Carolina would be a good place to start a franchise!!

The Nats fan base will get better, once they bring in a team to compete.

Miami can not house a team and neither can Tampa Bay, keep the franchise, just relocate.

Answer 4

Absolutley the game would be a lot healthier because of it.
I would start with both Florida teams, both Texas teams, The Nationals, The Diamondbacks , The Rockies and go from there.
The simple fact of the matter is that some towns simply aren't baseball towns and it has absolutley nothing to do with market size.
Kansas City and Milwaukee are good baseball towns and Miami and Tampa are not.
So what's the point of trying to keep MLB in a place that won't support it ? There is none

Answer 5

Tigers. Indians and Twins,................bright person. Comerica park is always close to being sold out, the Indians sold out 455 consecutive games from 1995-2001 and the crowds are getting bigger every game, and the Twins have won the AL Central 4 out of the last 5 years.

I don't think they should get rid of any teams but move them somewhere else. The Marlins should go somewhere else, who knows where, anywhere. the Devil Rays don't draw to well either but you have to leave at least 1 team in Florida.

Answer 6

Tampa and Phoenix are long previous and Las Vegas and Suffolk County long island are the type new franchises. Why Suffolk ?because of fact it has a million.3 million human beings residing in it and that's coming up. Shea Stadium is the closest basic league ballpark and the hollow is between 35-one hundred mile away. That one hundred mile distance is approximately comparable to that's from Shea Stadium to electorate financial organisation Park [Phillie's] or from CBP to Camden Yards in Baltimore. besides abutting Suffolk County are the a million.3 million citizens of Nassau County long island 2.6 million human beings characterize a great industry base and the Mets and Yankees in many cases does no longer pass away out them-ok in line with danger fairly Edit. i do no longer comprehend a number of those ideas . what's the factor of moving a team from one small the city like Tampa or Milwaukee to a various small the city like Portland OR or Indianapolis ? The lesson could have been found out by utilizing ability of now ; small cities have disaster helping a MLB team. the finest respond that's clever beside mine is giving Brooklyn[ pop 2,465 , 326 ] a team as quickly as greater. the finest motive that Las Vegas is clever is that it does no longer remember on the interior sight inhabitants to help it.

Answer 7

They should take the bottom 5 teams, and move to a system like the English Premier League, where they rotate a few teams in from the minor leagues. I doubt the Pirates would ever play another major league game, but you win some you loose some.

Answer 8

instead of getting rid of teams why dont the just make an equal salary cap for each team so that teams like the marlins and the pirates and all of the other teams that can be good but dont have that one key player, that is getting paid 25 million dollars in ny, can make those teams better so that we dont keep seeing the same old yankee red sox series for the al championship every year

Answer 9

This won't be popular, and I'm not saying it to be vindictive, but -- contract the Yankees.

Think. What is one of the most steady (if unsupportable) complaints in baseball today? "The Yankees spend too much / buy up all the good players." This is a benefit of the team's enormous income, which is largely realized through the huge, unmatchable size of its local market (DESPITE being shared with the Mets).

Remove the Yankees and annul all media contracts. Expand by three teams -- one in the Bronx, one in Manhattan, one in northern New Jersey, each with roughly one-third of the income the Yankees had. Disparity gone! Anti-Yankees whiners would need to find a new hobby, but that's just hard cheese for them.

Hey, NYC once supported three teams, and the population hasn't gotten smaller since those days. It could handle four. This will never happen, of course, but it does solve a number of so-called problems within baseball.

Answer 10

Dr J is obviously a White Sox fan (how unfortunate, lol)

I don't think they should lose any teams, but some teams are in need of new ownership. Make a team good, and the fan base will grow.

And go Tigers!