OPINION:
In baseball, market size and success aren’t necessarily related (“Realignment based on market size would achieve greater balance,” Web, Aug. 25). The Milwaukee Brewers have the smallest market size (by some measures) and they’re the hottest team in baseball, with a recent 14-game winning streak. The future Las Vegas A’s are, inexplicably, moving from a large market to one of the tiniest in the MLB.
There’s also a lot of statistical manipulation, and when it comes to market size, where do we draw the borders for Washington, D.C., Phoenix or Houston? And what happens to the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds, whose TV territories span multiple states? Are the Red Sox all of New England? Even murkier is whether we count the Blue Jays as the greater Toronto metropolitan statistical area —or the entirety of Canada.
This proposal might be tongue in cheek, but it’s exactly the sort of idea they’d try in Banana Ball – or the innovative Pacific Coast League.
ADAM SILBERT
New York, New York
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