{"id":8413,"date":"2010-07-02T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8413"},"modified":"2010-07-01T22:45:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T21:45:57","slug":"web-pick-of-the-week-realignment-and-interleague-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8413","title":{"rendered":"Web Pick of the Week: Realignment and Interleague play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6264\" title=\"Web-Pick\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/Web-Pick.png\" alt=\"Web-Pick\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/>A\u00c2\u00a0recent article on BGB proposing a new MLB structure, <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8039\" target=\"_blank\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Final Cut\u00e2\u20ac\u009d system: Nellie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s big league view\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a>, looked at a topic that is being debated by many right now, as shown\u00c2\u00a0by a recent \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGame Changers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 article on MLB.com<\/p>\n<p>Game Changers is a series that sets the scene for some of the biggest debates in baseball today (use of Designated Hitters etc) and then provides a forum within which baseball fans can argue their points of view.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20100628&amp;content_id=11680376&amp;vkey=news_mlb&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=mlb\" target=\"_blank\">Division realignment<\/a> was the most recent topic under consideration and the article notes that the matter was reportedly \u00e2\u20ac\u0153raised in discussions held by the Special Committee for On-Field Matters appointed by Commissioner Bud Selig late last year\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 So maybe they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll pick up on Nellie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s idea?!<\/p>\n<p>Division realignment and Interleague Play are two topics that go hand-in-hand and the latter was looked at in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20100620&amp;content_id=11408314&amp;vkey=news_mlb&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=mlb\" target=\"_blank\">previous \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGame Changer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 feature<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of my pet hates of the current system is the way in which the unbalanced scheduled basically creates an unfair competition, in which teams fighting for a division can get a boost by playing a more favourable schedule than their opponent(s).\u00c2\u00a0 Interleague play accentuates this problem and a <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2010\/writers\/tom_verducci\/06\/25\/interleague\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent article<\/a> by Sports Illustrated\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tom Verducci shows how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our web picks of the week look at some recent articles on MLB realignment and interleague play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[553,86],"class_list":["post-8413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-mlb-2","tag-web-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8416,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions\/8416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}