Originally Posted by
MetEdDawg
To me the minors are about to be cut in half. The days of organizations managing 4 or 5 minor league teams plus a major league team, all in 6 different cities, are over. It probably took a pandemic to break that system but it needs to be done.
Honestly, there's too many professionals in baseball. And I think this is going to change how organizations are structured. I think the draft needs 10-15 fewer rounds and everything below AA needs to be eliminated. College baseball is expanding. People are watching those games on tv more than ever before. They aren't going to some local low A game on a Tuesday night and honestly, these kids have better resources at many of these colleges than they would in rookie ball or low A ball.
Monetarily, it's not sustainable as most of those teams below AA operate in the red. Expand MLB rosters to 30. Each MLB team gets 2 minor league affiliates. You can keep no more than 100 players in your organization. That gives you 3,200 professional ball players. That's plenty. Let the college game develop the talent like college football does. Keep more players in college and improve that product and draft from there.