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Baseball is Killing Reds - kevin - 02-16-2022
Reading on the Lockout / Strike. Players Union want drafted players and minor league players to get paid like major league big contract money. Players in their first years in majors won't have to wait to make big money. Some Owners then want to cut way back on the draft rounds and cut way back on minor leagues and minor league rosters. This would mean less minor league teams and less minor league rosters.
Now this may be OK for The New York Yankees who can afford to just buy free agents to fill a major league roster.
However it will kill small market teams like Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and others who greatly depend on less expensive young players and inexpensive veterans on the cheap to field a team. Small Market teams depend on the Minor League Farms System and the many players and extra revenue The Farm system has produced since the 1930's. The age of Million Dollar Ball Players began in the late 1970's and went through the roof in the 1994 Strike Season outcome. 1994 changed baseball to where Small Market teams just barely survive and almost no Small Market team has made The World Series since 1994.
Pittsburgh is a perfect example of a team that was great before Million Dollar Ball Players. Now the Pirates are reduced to using players up from the minors, but once they reach big money, the Pirates are forced to trade the best players for cheaper minor league players in a constant last place rebuild. Cincinnati often falls into this bucket.
Oakland came up with Money Ball in fielding a team on The Cheap. Tampa has had the most success on Money Ball and how to win on The Cheap.
Small Market teams will fold if they can not play Money Ball. The 2022 Strike / lockout is set to produce the elimination of the Minor League System as we know it. A reduced draft, less Minor League players and teams, and forced to pay Millions to all draft choices and Minor League and starting Major League Players will force Small Market Pittsburgh and Cincinnati to fold due to lack of income. The Pirates or Reds can not pay out these kinds of salaries, nor can they stay in business without the young players on The Cheap.
Now some may not give a damn about The Dayton Ohio Dragons. The Reds Single A team has sold out every game since the Dayton Dragons started. Dayton built a great stadium for the Dragons. Dayton supports and sells out every Dragons Game in Dayton. Most of these Dayton Fans really don't follow the Cincinnati Reds that much, they love their Reds Single A Dayton Dragons Team of Players. If a Reds is sent to play a rehab game in Dayton, these Fans do NOT get excited about seeing a Red play a rehab game in Dayton, because they would rather see Their players on The Field.
Reducing The Minor Leagues would wipe out many Minor League teams. Dayton losing it's team that often has more fans in the stands than Cincinnati would be Baseball Insanity.
1994 hurt Baseball greatly for Small market Pittsburgh and Cincinnati and others. These cities are NOT New York or LA. 2020 Covid short season of no minors leagues was bad and now here comes 2022 strike / lockout. The HUGE changes to Minor Leagues and starting young Major League salaries will be THE END of teams such as Cincinnati or Pittsburgh. There is no way these cities can stay in business. They are faced with Last Place Teams to Folding completely. Their is NO financial way to keep these teams going under the new changes.
IF Baseball was like The NFL it would be different for Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. TV Revenue Sharing in The NFL is HUGE. The NFL back in the 1960's decided The NFL would be better if all team owners could field good ball teams. Baseball has not been as smart. In Baseball you have the Big City rich teams and the small city awful teams, and it makes for a Bad Sport and Very Bad Baseball. The NFL was Smarter.
Baseball goes Dumb and Dumber now. As some Fans support Players Greed and other Fans support Big City Owners, we can wave good bye to cities such as Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Long time great franchises from the beginning of Baseball, but now being financially ran out of business. 1994 hurt these franchises greatly. 2020 and now 2022 will just Kill these franchises. In 2020, as Big City owners dumped their Minor Leagues, a few teams like Cincinnati and Tampa bought up these Minor League Contracts as FUTURE STOCKS looking ahead. Now 2022 is going to ruin that plan by Cincinnati and Tampa and that will become wasted money as Baseball intends to change and reduce The Minor Leagues. So everything The Reds did in 2020 is lost.
Baseball Big City Owners and The Players Union are killing the Minor Leagues, and that will Kill Cincinnati and Pittsburgh type teams. It will also KILL the great Fan Base in Dayton if their Dragons who have sold out every game ever are Closed Forever due to Baseball Stupidity.
It is a shame. Dayton has a great Minor League Stadium and Fan Base. Cincinnati is the first Pro Baseball Team. Cincinnati has a nice ball park and The Cincinnati Hall Of Fame and statues to Reds Greats could soon all be gone. The Yankees type teams and The Players Union don't care if Dayton and Cincinnati lose their teams, in fact they are as the Executioner hired to kill and eliminate and fire.
That both Big City Owners and Players Union are working on their own set of plans to KILL the Minor Leagues and Small Market Teams is no good for Reds or Dragons Fans. Baseball may well be reduced back to 10 Major League Teams in each League all in Big Cities with almost no Minor Leagues as compared to now. This means 10 MLB Teams or more will be ELIMINATED and most Minor League Teams will be ELIMINATED.
If Baseball is ELIMINATED in Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo, Chattanooga, Birmingham, and small cities across The USA. If the only thing left is teams like The New York Yankees and Chicago, LA, Boston. Then at that point Baseball can go to Hell. Me and most of The USA will say the Hell with The Yankees if many smaller cities across The USA lose their Teams, Players and History. Sadly if you read anything about Big City Owners and Players Union in 2022, this is the direction they are both going in Total GREED. Once they do this, Baseball can go to Hell. No Reds, No Dayton Dragons, then the hell with The Yankees and the other Big City reduced new version of Baseball.
I now HATE both the Big City Owners and The Players Union, there is NO SIDE to root for, because BOTH have plans that would KILL Cincinnati and Dayton Baseball, so my HATE grows strong for those out to hurt and eliminate My Teams.
RE: Baseball is Killing Reds - CincyDog - 02-17-2022
The Reds have killed the Reds
With awful contracts, terrible drafting, cheap ownership, Horrible trades, a failed rebuild, and nepotism hires rampant in their org.
Get real.
RE: Baseball is Killing Reds - J24 - 02-18-2022
Their definitely needs to be a cap in baseball.