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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
I'm really not sure why there's always this call to contract the league. Baseball's doing pretty well at the moment and I don't think that a big divide between large market and small market teams is what's causing the issues that it does have, at least not anymore. If anything I'd like to see the league find a way to bring baseball back to Montreal and maybe expand southward into Mexico. Whether that's done by another round of expansion or by relocating existing teams, I don't really care.
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I generally agree with you but there IS an issue with roster continuity in the smaller markets. Essentially, the smaller market teams serve as a kind of AAAA level whose function is to expose prospects to major league competition so that the TRUE major league teams will know what they are bidding on 4-5 years later. Fans in these markets can have no attachment to players because they will be gone in a few years, and I DO believe that these 5 year tear down and rebuild cycles are the primary driver of all the empty stadiums you see in the smaller markets.