by Asher B. Chancey, BaseballEvolution.com
April 28, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 may go down as a watershed day in the history of Major League Baseball. For those of you who missed it, here is a brief recap of the milestone events from yesterday:
Meanwhile, in Milwaukee and Philadelphia, the End of the Beginning of the End.
A Look at the Standings, and What Do We See?
Today is April 28, 2010. The first month of the 2010 baseball season is almost behind us. In a game in which much is made of competitive balance and the need for a salary cap or some other type of structure to level the playing field between big-market teams and small-market teams, we find that five small market teams – San Diego, St. Louis, Oakland, Minnesota, and Tampa Bay – are currently in first place in their respective divisions. Additionally, if the playoffs started tomorrow the San Francisco Giants would be the NL wild card team. Meanwhile, with the exception of the New York teams, big market teams in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Boston all find themselves without winning records.
I don’t know if it means that there isn’t a problem, but I do know that I like it this way.
Questions? Concerns? Comments? Asher lives in Philadelphia, PA, and can be reached at asher@baseballevolution.com.
