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7. Pirates: Nick Gonzales, SS, New Mexico State
It was no secret that the Pirates were looking at college hitters, and they came away with a guy who led NCAA Division I in hitting last year and home runs this spring -- and won the Cape Cod League MVP Award in between. He reminds me so much of Milwaukee’s Keston Hiura and should race to the big leagues just as quickly. The Pirates may try him at shortstop, but he’s best suited for second base
15. Phillies: Mick Abel, RHP, Jesuit (Ore.) HS
No one knew when the first high school pitcher would come off the board, and it’s here, with the Phillies getting a potential steal in Abel. He didn’t get a chance to pitch this spring because his season was cancelled before it started due to the coronavirus, but he’s polished for a prepster and has plenty of stuff: a fastball that can climb into the upper 90s, perhaps the best slider in the prep class and a promising changeup as well. Teams are skittish about the risks involved with high school righties, but this could pay off huge.
Competitive Balance Round A
31. Pirates: Carmen Mlodzinski, RHP, South Carolina
Mlodzinski put himself on the prospect map with a strong summer in the Cape Cod League and might have gone higher than this if he had more of a chance to build on that momentum this spring. He can touch 99 mph with his fastball and has the potential for three plus pitches if his slider and changeup continue to develop.
https://www.mlb.com/news/2020-mlb-draft-day-1-complete-coverage?t=mlb-draft
I think they will be going with 16 teams making the playoffs next year too. Having more than half the teams making the playoffs after playing 162 games is a freaking joke.
Yeah waning so much that they are able to pay the athletes more than any other sport.
You get to watch "base ball in it's purist. That is so wonderful about the minor's...they play excellant ball.
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It's hard to tell, but it might still happen.
MLB owners vote to proceed with 2020 season under March agreement
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29349514/mlb-owners-vote-proceed-2020-season-march-agreement
Won’t last. League is too top-heavy to remain viable at its current high paying status.
You don't think 164 games has anything to do with that ? BTW, the NBA pays more per athlete.
Demographics for the average baseball fan- 57 y/o white male. About the same as this board. Not too many on here are pumped , as you can tell by the comments.
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I love how the dedicated the ‘baseball is dying’ people are. Youd think they were just ignore the sport, but nope, they love posting in every baseball thread
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Exactly. Who cares what form it is? I’m excited for any sport to start up
I hope it comes back and if it does, I will watch every Mets game, regardless of score or playoff potential. AFter all, baseball is America's game!
Statistically speaking, 50 games likely does not separate the wheat from the chaff. There is much more variability in who wins baseball games than in other sports.
Not that I actually believe they will make it but I think this is a great chance for a pirates or angels or some other normal bottom feeder to make the extended playoffs
Apologies, I like the sport. It’s not my favorite, but I grew up with it so it will always hold a special nostalgia for me. My point is that it has an unfavorable economic structure to keep itself perched as the top-paying professional sport. Its two main advantages are having no competition for fans during the summer - it’s the only game in town for much of its season, and the duration of the season - WAY more games played than any other sport. But popularity-wise overall, it doesn’t match the high salaries it pays. Demographics are changing - according to the baseball almanac, World Series viewership has dropped substantially in the past 2+ decades (single digit ratings are the new norm). So if the fans are waning, and only a small handful of teams can legitimately compete for the crown, the time will come when baseball will have to have a reckoning with how it pays its players.
And yet tv networks are still lining up to broadcast the games at incredible prices
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id...n-dollar-deal-turner-sports-air-playoff-games
Baseball is still a hell of a lot better than the NBA, not sure how anyone watches it personally.
What's so not wonderful about minor league baseball is the great majority of those folks are making somewhere between $5,000-$15,000 a year to entertain you.
It's a completely messed up situation that needs to be addressed, but MLBPA really doesn't give a rat's patootie.
Due to what can be considered an already excessive number of playoff teams, this definitely happens mostly in the NHL and occasionally in the NBA, but:
...speaking only for myself, and with the rare exception of an NFL team who actually wins its division (albeit a weak division) with a losing record, I have no interest in watching any playoff series in any sport in which one of the teams was below .500 during the regular season.
Fair point. My question is with sustainability...baseball is the oldest dinosaur of all of the pro sports, and pro sports (as a whole) is seemingly of increasingly lesser importance to each passing generation.
MLB is addressing that by saying they cost too much and are cutting 42 teams. Spikes may never take the field again.
The Cardinals agreed with Fox Midwest in 2018 for TV rights for a guaranteed 1 Billion dollars over 15 years and 30% equity in the network..... sounds pretty sustainable.
Yankees Stadium, Citi Field will be crowded for Yankees, Mets
By George A. King III and Mike Puma
June 24, 2020 | 12:10am
When spring training opens on Wednesday, it’s going to be crowded at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, and minor league facilities could see some unexpected action, including Brooklyn.
Members of the Yankees’ 40-man roster and approximately 20 additional players on the “taxi squad’’ will spend the first half of Spring Training 2 working out in The Bronx. After that the taxi squad will be sent to PNC Field in Moosic, Pa., which is the regular-season home of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, the Yankees’ Triple-A team.
Mets officials have discussed the possibility of utilizing MCU Park in Brooklyn — home of their Class-A affiliate — as an overflow site for workouts, according to industry sources. Citi Field will become the Mets’ primary workout site, after teams last week vacated their Florida ballparks due to a surge in coronavirus cases. One source said MCU Park was “on the table,” as a possible workout locale, but nothing has been finalized.
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The initial plan was for Spring Training 2 to take place at Florida and Arizona locations. However, positive tests for coronavirus have spiked in those areas.
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MLB ordered spring training facilities locked last week after the Phillies and Yankees were among big-league teams to have members of their organizations test positive.
“It’s all going to be new for us,” a Mets player told The Post. “I don’t even know what to expect.”
https://nypost.com/2020/06/24/yankees-stadium-citi-field-will-be-crowded-for-yankees-and-mets/
By George A. King III and Mike Puma
June 24, 2020 | 12:10am
When spring training opens on Wednesday, it’s going to be crowded at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, and minor league facilities could see some unexpected action, including Brooklyn.
Members of the Yankees’ 40-man roster and approximately 20 additional players on the “taxi squad’’ will spend the first half of Spring Training 2 working out in The Bronx. After that the taxi squad will be sent to PNC Field in Moosic, Pa., which is the regular-season home of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, the Yankees’ Triple-A team.
Mets officials have discussed the possibility of utilizing MCU Park in Brooklyn — home of their Class-A affiliate — as an overflow site for workouts, according to industry sources. Citi Field will become the Mets’ primary workout site, after teams last week vacated their Florida ballparks due to a surge in coronavirus cases. One source said MCU Park was “on the table,” as a possible workout locale, but nothing has been finalized.
ADVERTISEMENT
The initial plan was for Spring Training 2 to take place at Florida and Arizona locations. However, positive tests for coronavirus have spiked in those areas.
MORE ON:
NEW YORK YANKEES
Five Yankees storylines to watch as spring training 2 begins
You will fall in love with baseball again
MLB 2020 season is one giant step closer to happening
The unusual pep talk behind drunk Yankees perfect game
Yankee Stadium and Citi FieldN.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg; Getty Images
MLB ordered spring training facilities locked last week after the Phillies and Yankees were among big-league teams to have members of their organizations test positive.
“It’s all going to be new for us,” a Mets player told The Post. “I don’t even know what to expect.”
https://nypost.com/2020/06/24/yankees-stadium-citi-field-will-be-crowded-for-yankees-and-mets/
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