Rosenthal's Reallignment Idea

[Invader3K]

Well, sounds like the commissioner is considering everything at this point.

 

Selig considering radical realignment idea.

 

When baseball commissioner Bud Selig named a 14-person "special committee for on-field matters" four months ago, he promised that all topics would be in play and "there are no sacred cows." The committee already has made good on Selig's promise by discussing a radical form of "floating" realignment in which teams would not be fixed to a division, but free to change divisions from year-to-year based on geography, payroll and their plans to contend or not.

 

The concept gained strong support among committee members, many of whom believe there are non-economic avenues that should be explored to improve competitive balance, similar to the NFL's former use of scheduling to help parity (in which weaker teams were awarded a weaker schedule the next season).

[paul253]

What a joke. They'll consider anything but what the actual solution is, and that's a salary cap. Having teams switch divisions every year based on a payroll is a joke. Why don't they make a salary cap and a salary floor and the competitive balance thing will fix itself. Fix the draft so that the worst teams are able to sign the best prospects, and institute a salary cap and there is the solution. Why doesn't Bud Selig grow a pair and take on the union that he has allowed to become as strong as it is.