Pro Yakyu in 2020
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Re: Pro Yakyu in 2020
[ Author: Guest: no | Posted: Jun 22, 2003 4:57 PM
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MLB doesn't like your dream. Except that the "Pacific Rim" champions will have to face the top of South America, then we will have a real final match with MLB.
Re: Pro Yakyu in 2020
[ Author: Guest: Frank | Posted: Jun 27, 2003 4:27 AM
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It'll be impossible because of all the traveling and time zone adjusting for players. MLB won't be played in all parts of the world unless NBA, NFL, and NHL are going to do the same.
Re: Pro Yakyu in 2020
[ Author: BSO_Cards | Posted: Aug 8, 2003 6:15 AM
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Ya, travelling is already real tough on the players. Maybe a winter league in Japan involving American and Japanese players could be created? There are already plenty of winter leagues in Central America, but that's primarily for Minor leaguers.
Re: Pro Yakyu in 2020
[ Author: 1908 | Posted: Aug 8, 2003 1:49 PM
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- Maybe a winter league in Japan involving American and Japanese players could be created?
Or they could just re-open the Hawaiian Winter League.
Or they could just re-open the Hawaiian Winter League.
Re: Pro Yakyu in 2020
[ Author: niibu_yaa | Posted: Aug 30, 2003 7:24 PM
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Winter league in Japan? It's not all like Okinawa, so I'm not sure that would work. You'd run into the same problems with having a winter league in North America.
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Questions 5, 7, and 8 all relate to the internationalization of baseball, asking:
5. How many [...] MLB franchises will be outside of the U.S.?
7. Indicate which of these cities outside of the US and Canada will have MLB franchises in 2020:
8. In 2002, about 1 player in 4 in the majors (24.5%) was born outside the U.S. In the minor leagues, the percentage is already around 50%. In 2020 [what percentage will it be?]
Looking at these questions from this side of the Pacific, I still don't think that MLB and NPB will merge by 2020, although I do think that their relationship with each other will change significantly. You all know about my desire to see a Pacific Rim League happen, and the winner of that to take on the winner of North America in a "real" World Series, so I think that, if anything, "PRL" and MLB may start battling over rights to the Asian talent pool. Still, is this a long enough time frame to see it happen?
Whether the Pacific Rim League comes about or not, I still think that MLB will expand toward South America, not Europe and/or Asia. It's closer, they've already got a great many ties at all levels, and there isn't as great a problem with jet lag as they're in the same time zones as North America.
But what I'm really interested in is your opinions on what Nippon Professional Baseball will be like in 2020. Will it expand internationally? Will it be assimilated by MLB? Will umpires be replaced by technology? Will SABR-metrics be discovered and used by managers here?