2020s MLB Expansion Watch Thread...

[MikelArteta]

Nobody would ever want to fly to Vancouver to play baseball.

Vancouver is one of the best cities in the world

 

[MikelArteta]

Bring back the expos

 

[King Poetic]

Montreal would be the best spot again

I was just there

Just clean up the homeless along sherbrooke st and this time get a wealthy Canadian who has money and want to invest in the team and knows the people of Quebec

 

[Belize King]

Tampa Rays are being sold if they haven’t been sold yet. Unfortunately, the new owner wants to keep the team there.

I have a house in Ybor and I’ve been to maybe ten Rays games. Every game I go to, I buy the $10 tickets and just walk down the lower area. If they say they have 10k fans, it probably 6k and the rest are corporate tickets that nobody used.

The issue is St Pete. It’s a terrible experience getting to the stadium. Not worth it. Even if they build a new stadium, fans won’t go. If they bring the team to Tampa, they might have a shot. K haven’t looked at the attendance records for the Steinbrenner stadium but I wonder if they sold out every game. If not, the new owner should move the team to Canada and call it a day.

Marlins is another team that gets no support. I think they are stuck in there stadium for a while though. Nashville and Portland should get the next teams. Rays move to Canada since they Canadians know the Rays.

 

[K-Apps]

Salt Lake has both the ownership and stadium plan, and is the Western frontrunner anyway, though I do think there is gonna be some heavy consideration into whether a 4th major league team oversaturates that market. They've got NBA, MLS, and NHL now. The smallest city with 4 major league teams is Seattle, which is 3x the size of Salt Lake.

It isn't a given that they can support a 4th squad, and thats gonna come up with Nashville, too. They've got NFL, NHL, MLS. They are MLB's #1 choice though, I think has been made clear.

Raleigh, a city with only one major league team and ownership at the ready, can support another team and I think will be heavily considered. So will Portland, which has two teams but is bigger than Salt Lake.

How bad do people in Montreal want baseball to return?

Raleigh is becoming a frontrunner. Nashville is still MLB's preferred destination, but I think its gonna be closer than some think for the new Eastern team. Raleigh has momentum too.

They fly there to play soccer and hockey, what's the difference?

I think if there was a big pocketed ownership group with a realistic stadium plan with proper help with Quebec government (lowkey very incompetent run btw) they would gladly have the Expos 2.0 back. But, there are some aren’t convinced baseball will return due to those reasons.