Major League Baseball: Teams That Suck - Whats It Going To Take?

[ClockShot]

A little money, brains, and management. The three things you need, to run a successful baseball team.

As many have pointed out, the Twins are a good example of this. Gardy knows how to manage his team. If he can find the master plan to beat the yankees each season, he'd probably have a world series ring by now. Joe Mauer has been secured for the long haul and you can easily build around him for not much money, throw in the cheap new stadium, they're going places fast.

Marlins had something going for a few years now. But Jeff Loria must be one hell of a basketcase. Joe Girardi got a manager of the year award with that club and got axed shortly after. Now he fires Fredi Gonzalez, MLB orders him to pay Josh Johnson, and a new stadium is about to be built. Tampa Bay is about to be Florida's team.

Bottom feeder teams such as Baltimore and Pittsburgh (no offense Droford and Schlomey) need to have somebody with mega bucks walk in and make an offer they can't refuse and start from scratch IMO. (See New Jersey Nets owner Mikhail Prokrohov.) New ownership, new front office, new everything. Pirates are the AAAA baseball club, and Angelos is too chicken to spend the cash to bring in a big name guy to build around Roberts and Markakis. Mark Teixeira could have been that guy last year, but the Yankees put a few extra bucks on top and that brought him in.

[Emperor Smeat]

Originally Posted by ClockShot Bottom feeder teams such as Baltimore and Pittsburgh (no offense Droford and Schlomey) need to have somebody with mega bucks walk in and make an offer they can't refuse and start from scratch IMO. (See New Jersey Nets owner Mikhail Prokrohov.) New ownership, new front office, new everything. Pirates are the AAAA baseball club, and Angelos is too chicken to spend the cash to bring in a big name guy to build around Roberts and Markakis. Mark Teixeira could have been that guy last year, but the Yankees put a few extra bucks on top and that brought him in.

To be fair to Pittsburgh, there has been a few potential people who wanted to buy the team (like Super Mario Lemieux) but similar to the Clippers of the NBA and the Lions of the NFL, the owner refuses to sell even if the offer was too huge to refuse. The owner would rather want the guaranteed money from revenue sharing and other bonuses MLB allows an owner to earn each year then sell the team to a smarter/wealthier owner.

Orioles are in a similar situation but their owner isn't as overtly greedy as Pittsburgh's owner and they do compete in the toughest division in baseball. Orioles owner is more concerned about expanding and protecting his "market" area which explains why he was the owner who hated the Nationals moving to DC.