Should Baseball expand to 32 teams?

Question

If so, should expand in two U.S. cities or go international with another Canadian team and maybe a team in Mexico?

Answer 1

yes they should add two teams, one in Las Vegas, and one in Salt Lake City, in Las Vegas where i live people crave baseball. When they have preseason Cub games here people wait online for days and days. There is a huge baseball Market HERE. Send us a Team!

Answer 2

No way - they already have too many teams. Another Canadian team? Doubt it - baseball's just not big enough there other than in Toronto. A team in Mexico might not be a bad idea, but I would wonder if they could compete on a financial level with the other teams, and I would wonder if some players would hesitate to spend half of the year living in Mexico. For now though, I think baseball should look at contracting instead of expanding.

Answer 3

I do this speaking as a Canadian, don't even bother putting another team in Canada.
We have 32 mill people and 25% of it is in a strip from Windsor to Kingston

There is Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa and Calgary as other cities with 1 million population.

Montreal obviously couldn't support a franchise and they are the 2nd most populous city in Canada.

As long as the US continues to screw up with hockey, Canada will continue to screw up with Baseball, that's the way it is.

Having a team in Mexico becomes not about population, but more the constant entering and exiting of a country.

With the exception of your ultra sensitive Ambassador to Canada, we acknowledge that getting from US to Canada is pretty easy. Teams going into Mexico 27 times a year may be more difficult.

That being said, I truly think there are too many Triple A pitchers already, they should contract 2 teams.

Answer 4

I think certain teams in the MLB are having a difficult enough time staying competitive to add even more teams. Look at teams like Tampa Bay, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, etc. When is the last time we've seen any of these teams compete successfully? Why create another low market team and steal fans from other already dwindling and financially unstable organizations? Look what Florida has gone through since 1997 - they've won two separate championships and then lost fans the next year due to fire sales in order to free up some much needed cash. There is absolutely no stability in that organization. Tampa Bay and the Rockies haven't done much of anything. Arizona was lucky enough to find immediate success and develop a moderate fan base.

If anything, the right idea falls along the lines of what the Nationals did. At least now that organization has a chance of survival and the potential to compete in the future. Montreal wasn't amounting to much of anything since that early 90s era.

Less expansion, more relocation for financial stability reasons!!!

Answer 5

I read all those posts. Most of them very interesting. I really don't have a say. I heard the NFL will be getting a South and North Dakota team, but I doubt it. Like others said, there will likely be two more teams as the MLB grows, but that won't be for quite a few years down the road.

Answer 6

Yes, eventually, but not yet; another (likely final) round of expansion is at least 15 years away.

It depends on where the population has boomed by then, but I'm thinking Portland, Oregon, and Havana. Or maybe a third team in the New York metro area, which could easily handle it (though there'd be myriad legal hurdles in the way).

Answer 7

YES, its should be Portland, Oregon, and Charlotte North Carolina, Both can Support a Major League team and have No Problem Building a New Ballpark too, I would keep the Teams in the U. S. though.

Also Tampa Bay and Miami Will get New Ballparks too, I'll give You a Link to it.

Answer 8

yeah that would be very cool and i like the idea of having a another team in Canada, maybe Vancouver, and then in Mexico City

Answer 9

no they shouldnt add teams

people who want them to add are people who love seeing offense and lots of runs scored a game

people who dont (ie real fans) enjoy close games and good pitching matchups. the MLB talent pool is so underpopulated with good pitching that there arent really enough good pitchers for 30 teams, let alone 32 teams

if you add 32 teams, they would have the highest ERA of all 32 teams. guaranteed.

so no i saw 30 is enough, probably too many

Answer 10

i wouldnt say now but maybe in like 20 years. since many cities arnt able to hold a professional sports team but i would either put teams back in cities that used to have teams (except montreal) but dont add teams where they dont need need them like in NYC, Los Angeles. Also dont put another team in Canada and Difinently not in Mexico, but put them in places that have the ability to have a team that dont have teams already but i do agree to add teams in the near future