Should NCAA (baseball) go to 64 game tourney played in MLB parks?

[caulfield12]

It definitely would increase exposure for the future stars of tomorrow and make the draft more and more interesting, as it is for NFL/NBA and NHL fans around the world.

 

 

One of Boras’s concerns about the sport’s talent pool is the impact Title IX had on baseball scholarships. Many of us who believe in Title IX don’t think football should be included in the numerical calculations, since there are 85 football scholarships per Div. I programs, and women do not play football and thus shouldn’t be included.

 

But Boras has another suggestion—during the last ten days of February right in between pitchers’ PFP drills and the opening of exhibition games, have a 64 college tournament in Florida and Arizona, played at nights in major league spring training parks. MLB Network could televise the tournament, college players would have faces, not just Baseball America, MLB.com and Keith Law names, and when Carlos Rodon, Jeff Hoffman or Brad Zimmer get taken in the first round of the draft, fans watching MLB Network will have a clearer picture of who and what their team is getting.

 

Peter Gammons article on Boras

http://www.gammonsdaily.com/peter-gammons-...re-of-baseball/

 

He also wants a posting fee that would go back to teams (say $20 million for David Price) veteran free agents/minor league/international development so that teams would be able to keep their stud young players through year 6 instead of having to trade them after year 4.

 

 

Then, in lieu of draft choice compensation, Boras suggests that there be the equivalent of posting fees that teams have been willing to throw out for prime Japanese pitchers like Tanaka, Yu Darvish and Daisuke Matsuzaka. He suggests that if David Price is coming to free agency at 29 at the end of the 2015 season, there should be a certain automatic compensation level—be it $10M or $20M, whatever, that could be re-invested in veteran players and the draft; if the Rays, for instance, were to lose Price, it would get increased draft slot numbers, so they could sign veteran players for the present, spend more on the draft for the future and “be able to keep a Price for the full six years before free agency. It makes sense for their fan base.” In addition, again for instance, when Giancarlo Stanton and/or Jason Heyward, or even Trout or a Manny Machado hit the market under the age of 28, the payment would be even greater. “Rather than preparing to trade a premium player after his fourth year, they could have him for their fan base for the full six years,” says Boras, “then get legitimately compensated.”

 

Is Boras speaking out for his own interests? Of course. But small market owners wanted the change in the Japanese posting system so that most every team can at least post $20M, and larger signing markets willing to give Tanaka $100M would have that count towards luxury tax and revenue-sharing numbers, which so many of the recent local television megadeals do not, in case you think the Phillies and Indians are going to be equally compensated for regional television rights.

Edited April 19, 2014 by caulfield12

[danman31]

So the title of the post has nothing to do with the content of the post. Nice job.

 

The NCAA tourney for baseball currently has 64 teams and is double elimination. If they put the games in MLB parks, the stadiums would be 3/4 (at least) empty and the atmospheres would be awful. The atmosphere at a hosted regional/super regional is typically very good. I went to one myself several years back and really enjoyed it.