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Posted on 6/19/26 at 9:52 am to KLSU
Yep right as interest in the mlb is up and the games are alot more fan friendly they are about to shoot themselves in the fricking foot again.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 10:00 am to ell_13
Would allow more development at less cost
Posted on 6/19/26 at 10:03 am to zoom
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more development
Nah
Posted on 6/19/26 at 11:05 am to CatfishJohn
Me no likey the draft eligible after sophomore year.
Fuk that 2 yrs of the bonus babies on campus far outweighs leaving after 2 yrs.
Fuk that 2 yrs of the bonus babies on campus far outweighs leaving after 2 yrs.
This post was edited on 6/19/26 at 3:03 pm
Posted on 6/19/26 at 1:12 pm to ell_13
This may benefit LSU short term, but long term I think it’s bad for the sport.
You’re reducing minor league levels so owners can save money. I’ve never seen a league essentially de-emphasize the sport.
This means major league clubs will want to have stake in colleges. This alone should make you hope this thing doesn’t pass. You think CFB is pro sports? Imagine having LSU’s roster micromanaged by an MLB team.
IF MLB teams partner with colleges, then any perceived advantage that LSU has is gone. Don’t you think the Dodgers would do their best to make sure USC or UCLA has the best of the best in terms of facilities and funding? Who becomes LSU’s “sponsor?” There’s lots of competition in the SEC, and schools like Texas and aTm have more deep-pocketed donors get in tight with someone from say, Houston.
This is not the road you want the sport to head down.
You’re reducing minor league levels so owners can save money. I’ve never seen a league essentially de-emphasize the sport.
This means major league clubs will want to have stake in colleges. This alone should make you hope this thing doesn’t pass. You think CFB is pro sports? Imagine having LSU’s roster micromanaged by an MLB team.
IF MLB teams partner with colleges, then any perceived advantage that LSU has is gone. Don’t you think the Dodgers would do their best to make sure USC or UCLA has the best of the best in terms of facilities and funding? Who becomes LSU’s “sponsor?” There’s lots of competition in the SEC, and schools like Texas and aTm have more deep-pocketed donors get in tight with someone from say, Houston.
This is not the road you want the sport to head down.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 1:57 pm to TexasTiger08
I agree with pretty much everything you said, and still I think it’s just scratching surface on why it’s not good long term.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 2:51 pm to ell_13
I disagree with the expanded roster. It makes no sense. It has the same effect as giving players an extra year of eligibility. So you have the opportunity to get another year of production out of a good player. In the process you stimy the ability for production of the player who would have filled his shoes upon graduation or being drafted. Expanding the roster holds everyone else back and delays their production -growth. At the end of the day, expanding the roster size does nothing for the game. It only allows the major conferences and major teams 'an effort' to stack the deck.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 3:09 pm to ProjectP2294
I don’t like it one bit. Plus, minor league baseball is some of the most affordable family fun you can find these days. It’s been a major staple for over a hundred years, and Manfred and the owners are hell bent on killing it so save money. Basically, they want to save money to reduce the reach of the game. I shouldn’t be surprised by anything he does at this point.
I still think it’s just a bargaining chip for them to implement salary cap and floor.
I still think it’s just a bargaining chip for them to implement salary cap and floor.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 5:04 pm to ell_13
NIL has got to be killing single A ball. Kids that aren’t going to be to be drafted in earlier rounds are staying in school because of NIL vs starving playing single A
Posted on 6/19/26 at 5:15 pm to ell_13
Rougarou summer ball about to eat
Posted on 6/19/26 at 7:25 pm to Got Blaze
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Is this brilliant idea from the Commissioner, Rob Manfred ? Because it has no way of being approved or voted "yes" by the owners. 30% of MLB rosters are comprised of internationally born players. Most organizations have scouts dedicated to finding young talent in the Central American countries. Kids as young as 16 yrs old are signed to contracts and brought up through each teams minor league farm system. If MLB passes a law stating that athletes cannot sign until they complete their Sophomore year of college, will international baseball players be held to the same standards? Teenagers from the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Cuba, or Puerto Rico who have the skills and talent to compete at the next level are NOT going to college. If internationally born baseball prospects can sign contracts with MLB teams at 16-18 years of age, then the American-born kids would be discriminated against according to this proposed rule
There will be a minimum age to be drafted, 20 for the domestic draft and 18 for the foreign draft. Puerto Rico is in the domestic draft.
Apparently, MLB is fed up with the widespread international corruption. Thus they proposed the 2 separate drafts. If I understand correctly, each draft will have a maximum of $200B bonus pool.
By setting the minimum age for the domestic draft to 20, the end result would be to eliminate HS players from being drafted. There is the issue of some HS students being “re-classified” when it benefits them. I can see a HS student staying in HS an extra year and only having to wait one year before being draft eligible.
The ACC commissioner has already come out in favor of this MLB proposal.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 2:43 am to ell_13
Does this mean that they won't be able to sign the 16 y/o kids from Cuba, DR, etc?
If so, then it's an even better plan.
If so, then it's an even better plan.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 6:32 am to ProjectP2294
Why do you need 7-9 teams in an organization? Single A, High A , double A. Triple A, then the rookie ball stuff in Florida/Arizona, then most have a Dominican summer league. That’s a lot of money spent on development. Only to have an 18 yr old kid washout after 3 years. Let them
Go to college
Go to college
Posted on 6/20/26 at 7:17 am to Ampipe96
Theoretically if you were good enough at 18, then you should be good enough at 20. If you got worse by going to college then you probably weren’t going to make it anyway
Posted on 6/20/26 at 7:19 am to ell_13
Follow the money, solid analysis
Posted on 6/20/26 at 7:31 am to ell_13
that would completely change the quality of college baseball for the better. I do think LSU would feast in that scenario as well, would be pretty sweet.
Posted on 6/21/26 at 10:58 am to Volt
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Does this mean that they won't be able to sign the 16 y/o kids from Cuba, DR, etc?
Correct. Assuming it passes. Apparently MLB is tired of the corruption in the foreign market.
Posted on 6/21/26 at 11:16 am to ChiefCornerstone
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Correct. Assuming it passes. Apparently MLB is tired of the corruption in the foreign market.
The proposal just pushes the age back to 18. They don’t give a shite about corruption. They give a shite about guys reaching free agency in their mid 20s.
Posted on 6/21/26 at 12:14 pm to TexasTiger08
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You’re reducing minor league levels so owners can save money. I’ve never seen a league essentially de-emphasize the sport. This means major league clubs will want to have stake in colleges. This alone should make you hope this thing doesn’t pass. You think CFB is pro sports? Imagine having LSU’s roster micromanaged by an MLB team.
Why would major league teams want to save money by subsidizing fewer minor league teams only turn around a subsidize colleges whose players they don’t hold the rights to negotiate contracts with?
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