Rest of Baseball Thread 2009

[PhillyGirl]

By New Jersey, they mean North Jersey, therefore not mattering whatsoever here. Right?




Right? 

[MDS]

why not portland, kansas city or memphis?

[ice grillin you]

why not contract six teams and start with tampa

[MDS]

they should do that in every sport but its not a logical plan.

getting rid of florida, arizona, tampa, kc, oakland and one other (dc?) would be great. yes.

[SunMo]

yankees, red sox, tampa bay, kansas city, florida marlins, washington nationals?

[BigEd76]

move them north to Charlotte, then you don't have to worry about realignment or any of that BS

A quick Yankees note:  they signed Randy Winn, so Damon is all but finished there...

[MDS]

lol charlotte is a god awful sports town for everything except unc and duke.

im pretty sure a team would do okay in portland, its an up and coming leftist city that is really supportive of the blazers. pretty sure they would go balls in for a baseball team. youd just move them to the al west and have the al east be the 4 team division. more sox/yanks games!

[ice grillin you]

charlotte cant sell out nfl games

[Rome]

attendance in miami will be fine once they have the new stadium finished. 

the issue with the west coast of florida isn't that baseball can't make it there.  it's that the stadium is located 1/2 hour from downtown tampa in a place no one wants to drive to after working all day.  there's no mass transit either.  if they built a stadium with a retractable roof in downtown tampa they would get 30,000 a night there with no problems, especially if they continue to field competitive teams.

[QB Eagles]

The US biggest metro areas without a MLB team (all of these metro areas are smaller than Tampa):

Charlotte
Portland
Sacramento
Orlando
San Antonio
Las Vegas
Indianapolis

And hey, there's always Montreal.

[ice grillin you]

attendance in miami will be fine once they have the new stadium finished. 

you sure about that?

[Rome]

well, miami is the 7th largest metro area in the country, so yeah, i'm pretty sure they can get 30K a night to show up.

the stadium is going to be freaking beautiful, dude.

[ice grillin you]

the dolphins are one of the nfl's signature franchises and they cant sell out an 8 game schedule

ill believe miami will get 30k a nite for baseball when i see it

[ice grillin you]

mlb.com's top 60 prospects.....i dont know if anyone has ever seen jason heyward but that cat is gonna be ridiculous




1 Jason Heyward ATL
2 Stephen Strasburg WAS
3 Mike Stanton FLA
4 Buster Posey SF
5 Brian Matusz BAL
6 Desmond Jennings TB
7 Neftali Feliz TEX
8 Pedro Alvarez PIT
9 Justin Smoak TEX
10 Madison Bumgarner SF
11 Carlos Santana CLE
12 Alcides Escobar MIL
13 Wade Davis TB
14 Domonic Brown PHI
15 Dustin Ackley SEA
16 Brett Wallace TOR
17 Kyle Drabek TOR
18 Martin Perez TEX
19 Jesus Montero NYY
20 Jeremy Hellickson TB
21 Jarrod Parker ARI
22 Starlin Castro CHI
23 Christian Friedrich COL
24 Tim Beckham TB
25 Logan Morrison FLA
26 Brett Lawrie MIL
27 Ryan Westmoreland BOS
28 Casey Kelly BOS
29 Aaron Hicks MIN
30 Yonder Alonso CIN
31 Jason Castro HOU
32 Mike Moustakas KC
33 Wil Myers KC
34 Julio Teheran ATL
35 Michael Taylor OAK
36 Dee Gordon LAD
37 Chris Carter OAK
38 Austin Jackson DET
39 Tanner Scheppers TEX
40 Drew Storen WAS
41 Aaron Crow KC
42 Jacob Turner DET
43 Mike Montgomery KC
44 Jhoulys Chacin COL
45 Jose Iglesias BOS
46 Michael Brantley CLE
47 Phillippe Aumont PHI
48 Juan Francisco CIN
49 Ethan Martin LAD
50 Jaff Decker SD
51. Tyler Matzek, LHP, COL
52. Jennry Mejia, RHP, NYM
53. Mike Leake, RHP, CIN
54. Casey Crosby, LHP, DET
55. Lonnie Chisenhall, 3B, CLE
56. Nick Hagadone, LHP, CLE
57. Mike Trout, OF, LAA
58. Mike Minor, LHP, ATL
59. Freddie Freeman, 1B, ATL
60. Derek Norris, C, WAS

[phattymatty]

you're just biased because he plays for your favorite team.