If the unspoken rationale for a Major League Baseball season being this long is to provide ample runway for the best teams to identify themselves, then the system is failing. The current playoff format is neither getting the right people on the bus, nor getting them in the correct seats on said bus. This could all change in an instant, however. The year that MLB ultimately expands to 32 clubs is the year that this mess of a bracket could start to make sense. Note: I do say "could." The solution is sitting on the table, but it isn't a guarantee that Commissioner Rob Manfred doesn't muck it up by tweaking too many variables in the equation. Six teams per league, two byes, and two best-of-three "play-in" series need to be locked in as the constant. Playoff expansion should not come with any league expansion. I'll scream it until the day I die: An eight-team bracket in both the American and National Leagues would take too long, negate the need for any regu
How would the Vegas ballpark's centerfield shot rate against all others in the league? As outlined in Part I , Las Vegas has a real opportunity to stand apart from the pack when it becomes a Major League Baseball city. The following grades are not for the ballpark as a whole, but strictly the view of its surroundings from a second-deck, day-game view. The goal was to standardize a perspective. The search was to find something as close to directly behind home plate that matched the above criterion. I also wanted a middle-tier ticket price; not the noseble eds, but not the comfy chairs that get seen on TV every pitch, either. This represented the average line of sight. The caveat is that the following images discredit the peripheral vision and capable legs most humans possess. The entirety of the in-person experience is unarguably cropped out of each photo. And I'll be the first to admit: Sitting at a few of these locations wouldn't take much more than a 30° turn of the h