Sunday, July 4, 2010

All-Star Weekend

This is my proposal, to help shore up all the snubs that I just witnessed and to increase revenues for Major League Baseball. Instead of one All-Star game with two teams, have six teams playing a total of eight baseball games.

The first round would be lose and out. There are two options I've considered for this round and it is either the three AL teams play the three NL teams, rotating divisions similarly to interleague play. That or two intra-league games and one interleague game.

You are then left with three teams, each team playing two games. You will be left with two teams who go on to fight for the crown as Best Division in Baseball.

The players would have to be voted in to keep that fan-interaction aspect running, but the rosters would ultimately be determined by the manager who won the division the prior year with the other 3-5 coaches also in the dugout. For once the Yankees and Red Sox would have to combine forces with Evan Longoria and Carl Crawford to try to take out Justin Upton, Carlos Gonzalez and Jonathan Broxton.

Proposed Rosters

AL East
C Martinez
1B Youkilis
2B Cano
3B Longoria
SS Jeter
LF Crawford
CF Granderson
RF Swisher

SP Hughes
SP Sabathia
SP Price
SP Lester
SP Buchholz
SP Romero
SP Cecil
RP Rivera
RP Soriano
RP Papelbon

AL Central
C Mauer
1B Cabrera
2B Callaspo
3B Peralta
SS Ramirez
LF Rios
CF Jackson
RF Choo

SP Pavano
SP Liriano
SP Danks
SP Greinke
SP Carmona
SP Peavy
SP Verlander
RP Rauch
RP Thornton
RP Soria

AL West
C Suzuki
1B Smoak
2B Kendrick
3B Young
SS Andrus
LF Cruz
CF Hamilton
RF Ichiro

SP Lee
SP Hernandez
SP Lewis
SP Cahill
SP Weaver
SP Pineiro
SP Gonzalez
RP Bailey
RP Feliz
RP Aardsma

NL East
C McCann
1B Glaus
2B Prado
3B Wright
SS Ramirez
LF Victorino
CF Pagan
RF Werth


SP Johnson
SP Halladay
SP Santana
SP Pelfrey
SP Hanson
SP Hudson
SP Strasburg
RP Wagner
RP Capps
RP Rodriguez

NL Central
C Doumit
1B Votto
2B Phillips
3B Rolen
SS Theriot
LF Braun
CF McCutchen
RF Rasmus

SP Gallardo
SP Leake
SP Wainwright
SP Carpenter
SP Garcia
SP Oswalt
SP Silva
RP Marmol
RP Meek
RP Rhodes

NL West
C Olivo
1B Gonzalez
2B Johnson
3B Reynolds
SS Tulowitzki
LF Kemp
CF Gonzalez
RF Upton

SP Jimenez
SP Kershaw
SP Latos
SP Lincecum
SP Cain
SP Sanchez
SP Richard
RP Broxton
RP Bell
RP Wilson

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