I live in the Dominican Republic and the new stadiums have been an issue for about a decade. The main dream is to host the WBC someday, but LIDOM teams have very serious attendance problems when the game is not a main rivalry or a playoff game. It is an issue that has even been proposed to former MLB players to invest in, even with fiscal excemptions, but to this day it remains a dream. As you say, we need a new stadium boom, but what we really need is confident investors willing to take that ride. There is a new stadium built in Puerto Plata though, to attract a new LIDOM franchise. But the issue remains the same...
I live in Korea. I am a fan of the Samsung Lions. Before watching this video, I would have said "Yes" to expansion. I thought that turning 10 teams into 12 would make sense, especially if they put a team in the northeast where there is no team and another somewhere in the south would make for a nice two-division set-up. But you are right. The population is declining. Also, there aren't any other cities big enough to support a team. But an interesting thing is that they could already reorganize into two divisions. Half the teams are in the Seoul area, and half the teams are in the southern half of the country. Two divisions would make the postseason quite a bit different. Right now, the top 5 teams advance to the playoffs, but in stages. The top team advances straight to the Korean World Series, the second team advances straight to the penultimate round, and so on. Two divisions would likely mean that every playoff team would play in every round. That would make a difference since no team would sit idle for a long period while the earlier rounds are played.
Would be most surprised if any expansion happened in Australia. Lack of mainstream media exposure sees little coverage of the sport ever since the first ABL around 1990. Forming alliances with Asian and MLB operations have been done since day one. Poor exposure translates to the "preaching to the converted" syndrome. The big outlets have sold their souls to 3-4 football codes in winter and cricket in the summer. Cricket's Big Bash League attendances have skyrocketed in every Capital city.. We also have well organised sports like Surf Lifesaving Clubs that most other nations do not have. The number of MLB / MiLB / Colllege players we have produced locally given the sport's following is bloody amazing.
Japan should be Yes, they have such a strong baseball population that only having 12 teams is an embarrassment. NPB should lead the way as the main proponent of baseball in the East. Raise the number of foreigners allowed and implement a system where if a country is not a baseball developed country they can have more players. It cant just be MLB that is developing baseball globally, NPB gotta do its job.
Imo most of the growing the game globally is outsourced to expat organizations and indie leagues (look up Golden Larks of the Kyushu league) so the NPB wouldn't bother. Additionally you have the smug attitude, even seemingly against catering to foreigners of the Central League in the way of getting anything done.
As a mexican i would do the next: Move the Tigres back to México City Create a new team in Cancún and Juárez, maybe also in Tepic, San Luis, Minatitlán, Tampico, Ciudad del Carmen, Reynosa, Chetumal, Tuxtla Gutiérrez Add the LMP teams to the LMB And keep a winter league with at least 10 teams, but with all the winter teams playing also in summer
The Mexican Pacific League is fine as it is. The only change I would make is replace Monterrey with Tijuana, since TJ is actually on the pacific coast. That would also create a local rivalry with Mexicali
I am from Panama. Panama's regional league (Liga de Beisbol Mayor) is more popular than the winter league. There's 12 teams, one from each region, and the schedule usually runs from late February to around late April/early May. There's representation from almost every region in the country, and the final series is well televised. The main problem here is more about low attendance for regular season games and the struggle for investment into new facilities. And no, I don't think expansion is realistic as the player pool is already spread thin. Many of Panama's major league exports played here at one point, so the league does hold cultural significance. The junior league, based on a similar format, is also popular in the provinces. This year, they held a new under 23s tournament, but it struggled with low attendance as well.
Panama should make the regional league a real profesional league, keep the teams, each for every province and change the schedule to be longer and play less during the week, lets be real absolutely noone in panama is going to a game a monday night when they end almost midnight, try something like nfl and only play like friday to sunday or thursday to saturday, less game a week and the schedule would be longer, the only issue would be the rain during rainy season. Or try something to start as early as december and play the most they can during summer.
@SiahEV The core idea of Probeis is to have representation in the Caribbean Series. But, I do agree with your idea. Maybe start the Liga Mayor season in December and proclaim a mid season champion to represent Panama in the Caribbean Series. It would be much more interesting for the locals, too. That said, it would require an overhaul of the current structure of Panamanian baseball and larger investments, which I think will take a long time to come.
Weather and transportation. It is always too hot or raining in David and even getting into Estadio Kenny Sarracín is a nightmare no matter what time or day it is. The new stadium in Aguadulce is nice but the weather there is even worse and just not enough people live there. Traffic in Panama City is a mess and getting to and from Estadio Rod Carew could be an all day trip for most people.
impossible, they are hole different leagues. One is winter the other summer and most importantly, LMP is in crisis rn, and the LMB isn't, just one needs the merge
Still I believe Japan has the biggest room to expand. The number of teams have been underwhelmed for a long long time. The Ohtani effect even boosts the popularity of baseball that has been the no.1 sport of the country
Mexico's issue is mainly the geographic division between Winter and Summer Leagues, and also a few "Big" markets like Toluca or Juarez that don't have a team . Speculation with Diablos Rojos also participating in the LMP is always in the books, specially after the Charros and Sultanes situation. LMP bigger markets like Hermosillo, Mazatlan and Culiacán also mingle with the idea of playing all year long. And some american Cities have expressed interest in joining a Mexican league in the past, Tucson, San Antonio even Los Angeles at somepoint. Unification of the Leagues is also a minor conversación, but this is complicated because of the climatic conditions of some cities like Mexicali in the Summer or Chihuahua in the winter.
I love your videos @Baseball International, however , you have make like 4 videos already and you haven’t mentioned or make a video about the u15 and u23 world championship and the new WBSC RANKINGS baseball leagues around the world are part of international baseball , but are not everything you got national teams tournaments this year and you haven’t talk about it
I disagree with leagues in Mexico. I live in Oaxaca and its almost impossible to get a ticket and that's for the summer league. There are a lot of corporate buying and sponsoring in Mexico making it difficult for individual fans to get tickets. Also the population isn't evenly distributed. I think for example Mexico City could easily have 2 teams in the summer league and probably Guadalajara also. Or maybe they move some teams from the less populated areas for example. Looking at Quintana Roo has only one team in Cancun and could support at least one more. It is the fastest growing state in Mexico. Mexico is a lot more wealthy than the other countries in the region and can support more teams. Just need to place the teams in the right areas.
There are a number of cities in Mexico which would be happy to house the failing teams in LMB. Juarez, Reynosa to name two. They could do better than Campeche and Durango, for example. As for LMP being better competition than LMB, I'm not so sure that after 2024's LMB roster expansion, that is still the case. Only 30% of LMB players in 2024 were Mexican born. The other 70% being foreigners. LMB 2024 was the most competitive version of the league ever. In my professional opinion, the two are closer in competition level than ever. Personally, I prefer that LMB stay predominantly Mexican. The expansion has ruined the youth player development system, the LMB minor league system and some say it has ruined the league altogether. It's a good argument as many teams spent more money than ever and didn't get the financial returns they thought they would. Time will tell how all of this plays out. Que viva el béisbol.
What happened with BaseballUnited and Bundesliga, Czech Extraliga, French Division 1 and Honkbal Hoofklasse? You mentioned evey other pro league except Baseball United and European Leagues. NBL from England 🇬🇧 and rest..
They already bringing 3 new franchises to Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦. Kash Shaikh is owner of the league. He already did that with Saudi Baseball Federation. Next year he's introducing Rihyadt franchise. Qatar 🇶🇦 might be 8th franchise in Doha.
@@ohtani2024they actually have a very under the radar professional baseball league that’s been around since 2002, they suspended operations in 2017 but restarted in 2023 with about 10 or 8 teams
@@ohtani2024yeah I’d agree, idk how likely that is considering team sports just aren’t very popular in China. I think the WBC was a wake up call for some people there though which may have helped kickstart the league again last year
Not much out of the Philippines. A lot of talk about Uganda’s prospects. There’ll most certainly be some new signings this offseason from Uganda. Both countries are waiting to find out if there’s going to be pre-qualifiers for the WBC
@@baseballinternational174 I have always wished the Philippines decided to love baseball and became on the level of South Korea and be able to challenge Japan too in the pacific. Maybe one day. As for Uganda yeah I just want Africa to have a legit representation and passion for the game too. Thanks for the update, how would you think the Czech Republic could get serious too? I know their population in similar to Dominican Republic and more than Puerto Rico so quality can be produced? Also how could the USA assemble an off season tour team to play in these places and even India too to promote and grow the game? I know the stars will want thier offseason of course but I like the tours the euro soccer clubs do all over that type of thing.
ein Beitrag des Donnerstages, 19. Dezember 2024 In my opinion ... The MLB should expand to 32 teams! ° 2 leagues with 16 teams each. ° 4 divsions with 8 teams each. I would like to have an "US Open Baseball Cup" too! This would be a knockout competition. The "US Open Baseball Cup" would be played from March to September, with mostly 1 round per month. The number of MLB´s Regular Season games should be lowered, "a bit"! The MLB playoff, should be restricted to 8 teams! ° 4 division winners ° 1 best MLB team in "US Open Baseball Cup" ° 3 additional divsion runner ups The winner and the runner-up, of the same divison, will NOT play each other in the quarter final round, nor in the semi final round!
That Puerto Rican league seemed a bit out of place, given that all the other leagues are the top level of professional play in their nation. Just to make sure, you do realise that the top level of baseball for Puerto Rico is MLB, because Puerto Rico is a US territory, right?
Puerto Rico has its own teams on the international stage in spite of this fact, so I think talking about the Puerto Rican league as a top flight league seems appropriate
Just North American (inc. the Caribbean), some South American, a few Oceanian, and a few Asian countries. European and African countries must have lacked resources for baseball
I live in the Dominican Republic and the new stadiums have been an issue for about a decade. The main dream is to host the WBC someday, but LIDOM teams have very serious attendance problems when the game is not a main rivalry or a playoff game. It is an issue that has even been proposed to former MLB players to invest in, even with fiscal excemptions, but to this day it remains a dream. As you say, we need a new stadium boom, but what we really need is confident investors willing to take that ride. There is a new stadium built in Puerto Plata though, to attract a new LIDOM franchise. But the issue remains the same...
We have bigger problems than baseball right now..
Rebuilt, not new
I live in Korea. I am a fan of the Samsung Lions. Before watching this video, I would have said "Yes" to expansion. I thought that turning 10 teams into 12 would make sense, especially if they put a team in the northeast where there is no team and another somewhere in the south would make for a nice two-division set-up. But you are right. The population is declining. Also, there aren't any other cities big enough to support a team. But an interesting thing is that they could already reorganize into two divisions. Half the teams are in the Seoul area, and half the teams are in the southern half of the country. Two divisions would make the postseason quite a bit different. Right now, the top 5 teams advance to the playoffs, but in stages. The top team advances straight to the Korean World Series, the second team advances straight to the penultimate round, and so on. Two divisions would likely mean that every playoff team would play in every round. That would make a difference since no team would sit idle for a long period while the earlier rounds are played.
I feel like the only places they could are Gangneun or Jeju City, but those are 2 of the fastest shrinking cities in the country
Expansion team in Pyongyang, just make sure they win every game.
Would be most surprised if any expansion happened in Australia. Lack of mainstream media exposure sees little coverage of the sport ever since the first ABL around 1990. Forming alliances with Asian and MLB operations have been done since day one.
Poor exposure translates to the "preaching to the converted" syndrome.
The big outlets have sold their souls to 3-4 football codes in winter and cricket in the summer. Cricket's Big Bash League attendances have skyrocketed in every Capital city..
We also have well organised sports like Surf Lifesaving Clubs that most other nations do not have.
The number of MLB / MiLB / Colllege players we have produced locally given the sport's following is bloody amazing.
Japan should be Yes, they have such a strong baseball population that only having 12 teams is an embarrassment. NPB should lead the way as the main proponent of baseball in the East. Raise the number of foreigners allowed and implement a system where if a country is not a baseball developed country they can have more players. It cant just be MLB that is developing baseball globally, NPB gotta do its job.
Imo most of the growing the game globally is outsourced to expat organizations and indie leagues (look up Golden Larks of the Kyushu league) so the NPB wouldn't bother. Additionally you have the smug attitude, even seemingly against catering to foreigners of the Central League in the way of getting anything done.
As a mexican i would do the next:
Move the Tigres back to México City
Create a new team in Cancún and Juárez, maybe also in Tepic, San Luis, Minatitlán, Tampico, Ciudad del Carmen, Reynosa, Chetumal, Tuxtla Gutiérrez
Add the LMP teams to the LMB
And keep a winter league with at least 10 teams, but with all the winter teams playing also in summer
The Mexican Pacific League is fine as it is. The only change I would make is replace Monterrey with Tijuana, since TJ is actually on the pacific coast. That would also create a local rivalry with Mexicali
I am from Panama. Panama's regional league (Liga de Beisbol Mayor) is more popular than the winter league. There's 12 teams, one from each region, and the schedule usually runs from late February to around late April/early May. There's representation from almost every region in the country, and the final series is well televised. The main problem here is more about low attendance for regular season games and the struggle for investment into new facilities. And no, I don't think expansion is realistic as the player pool is already spread thin. Many of Panama's major league exports played here at one point, so the league does hold cultural significance. The junior league, based on a similar format, is also popular in the provinces.
This year, they held a new under 23s tournament, but it struggled with low attendance as well.
Panama should make the regional league a real profesional league, keep the teams, each for every province and change the schedule to be longer and play less during the week, lets be real absolutely noone in panama is going to a game a monday night when they end almost midnight, try something like nfl and only play like friday to sunday or thursday to saturday, less game a week and the schedule would be longer, the only issue would be the rain during rainy season. Or try something to start as early as december and play the most they can during summer.
@SiahEV The core idea of Probeis is to have representation in the Caribbean Series. But, I do agree with your idea. Maybe start the Liga Mayor season in December and proclaim a mid season champion to represent Panama in the Caribbean Series. It would be much more interesting for the locals, too. That said, it would require an overhaul of the current structure of Panamanian baseball and larger investments, which I think will take a long time to come.
Weather and transportation. It is always too hot or raining in David and even getting into Estadio Kenny Sarracín is a nightmare no matter what time or day it is. The new stadium in Aguadulce is nice but the weather there is even worse and just not enough people live there. Traffic in Panama City is a mess and getting to and from Estadio Rod Carew could be an all day trip for most people.
A champions league style tournament would be so cool
In Latin America we have Serie del Caribe where the winter tournaments play, and next year there's goingo to be one with all the summer champions
LMB and LMP should merge, which would be like expansion for both leagues
You don't knwo how much I'd love this change, but, I'd how they'd make it work
28 teams, how divisions will worked?
@@soldadoDELmiedo5220 We can add Nayarit and Juarez to make it 30 like MLB
impossible, they are hole different leagues. One is winter the other summer and most importantly, LMP is in crisis rn, and the LMB isn't, just one needs the merge
@@soldadoDELmiedo5220 4 divisions of 7?
Still I believe Japan has the biggest room to expand. The number of teams have been underwhelmed for a long long time. The Ohtani effect even boosts the popularity of baseball that has been the no.1 sport of the country
Mexico's issue is mainly the geographic division between Winter and Summer Leagues, and also a few "Big" markets like Toluca or Juarez that don't have a team .
Speculation with Diablos Rojos also participating in the LMP is always in the books, specially after the Charros and Sultanes situation.
LMP bigger markets like Hermosillo, Mazatlan and Culiacán also mingle with the idea of playing all year long.
And some american Cities have expressed interest in joining a Mexican league in the past, Tucson, San Antonio even Los Angeles at somepoint.
Unification of the Leagues is also a minor conversación, but this is complicated because of the climatic conditions of some cities like Mexicali in the Summer or Chihuahua in the winter.
I love your videos
@Baseball International, however , you have make like 4 videos already and you haven’t mentioned or make a video about the u15 and u23 world championship and the new WBSC RANKINGS baseball leagues around the world are part of international baseball , but are not everything you got national teams tournaments this year and you haven’t talk about it
I disagree with leagues in Mexico. I live in Oaxaca and its almost impossible to get a ticket and that's for the summer league. There are a lot of corporate buying and sponsoring in Mexico making it difficult for individual fans to get tickets. Also the population isn't evenly distributed. I think for example Mexico City could easily have 2 teams in the summer league and probably Guadalajara also. Or maybe they move some teams from the less populated areas for example. Looking at Quintana Roo has only one team in Cancun and could support at least one more. It is the fastest growing state in Mexico. Mexico is a lot more wealthy than the other countries in the region and can support more teams. Just need to place the teams in the right areas.
Nice video! Would like to see more venues WBC ready for the future
There are a number of cities in Mexico which would be happy to house the failing teams in LMB. Juarez, Reynosa to name two. They could do better than Campeche and Durango, for example. As for LMP being better competition than LMB, I'm not so sure that after 2024's LMB roster expansion, that is still the case. Only 30% of LMB players in 2024 were Mexican born. The other 70% being foreigners. LMB 2024 was the most competitive version of the league ever. In my professional opinion, the two are closer in competition level than ever. Personally, I prefer that LMB stay predominantly Mexican. The expansion has ruined the youth player development system, the LMB minor league system and some say it has ruined the league altogether. It's a good argument as many teams spent more money than ever and didn't get the financial returns they thought they would. Time will tell how all of this plays out. Que viva el béisbol.
MLB needs to expand by two teams. One in San Antonio or Salt Lake. The other in Nashville or Charolette
For LMP it's happening, the thing who will come along Tepic, Nayarit the list is long at least 5 prospects in México and 2 in U.S
What happened with BaseballUnited and Bundesliga, Czech Extraliga, French Division 1 and Honkbal Hoofklasse? You mentioned evey other pro league except Baseball United and European Leagues. NBL from England 🇬🇧 and rest..
Baseball United should expand to Qatar and Saudi
They already bringing 3 new franchises to Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦. Kash Shaikh is owner of the league.
He already did that with Saudi Baseball Federation. Next year he's introducing Rihyadt franchise. Qatar 🇶🇦 might be 8th franchise in Doha.
@@Melbester9 yes Kash along with several retired MLB players
The problem with the Caribbean leagues is lack of star power from MLB
I’ve read in the past about the CPBL expanding to mainland China
that's not going to happen surely lol... China does not have professional baseball system
@@ohtani2024they actually have a very under the radar professional baseball league that’s been around since 2002, they suspended operations in 2017 but restarted in 2023 with about 10 or 8 teams
@@mr.anderson2241 they need at least 5 or 10 years to build up the league. the popularity of baseball in the country is still very low.
@@ohtani2024yeah I’d agree, idk how likely that is considering team sports just aren’t very popular in China. I think the WBC was a wake up call for some people there though which may have helped kickstart the league again last year
Yeah, no thank you
Why doesn’t LIDOM build more baseball stadiums?
If the MLB should expand, it should definitely be Charlotte and Austin. Even at the moment Nashville seems more likely than Charlotte.
You should forget about probeis in panama and research more about the Regional league since its the league that people actually watch.
Any new news of Baseball in the Philippines and Uganda?
Not much out of the Philippines. A lot of talk about Uganda’s prospects. There’ll most certainly be some new signings this offseason from Uganda. Both countries are waiting to find out if there’s going to be pre-qualifiers for the WBC
@@baseballinternational174 I have always wished the Philippines decided to love baseball and became on the level of South Korea and be able to challenge Japan too in the pacific. Maybe one day. As for Uganda yeah I just want Africa to have a legit representation and passion for the game too. Thanks for the update, how would you think the Czech Republic could get serious too? I know their population in similar to Dominican Republic and more than Puerto Rico so quality can be produced? Also how could the USA assemble an off season tour team to play in these places and even India too to promote and grow the game? I know the stars will want thier offseason of course but I like the tours the euro soccer clubs do all over that type of thing.
@@baseballinternational174 may you please do a new video on the Ugandan prospects?
I plan on doing a video about Uganda some time this offseason. Waiting for some more news to come in first
@@GrandAdmiralPoseynow they seem to even lag behind China in the race for Asia's number 4. That's given I know nothing about how Pakistan is doing.
In the MLB, who would you suggest as expansion cities?
I really want to see a MLB team in NC
The Knights could probably beat the White Sox.
Where’s the World baseball news channels and are you still doing videos on Monday
I don’t have time on Mondays anymore so I got rid of the channel. If I start doing Monday videos again I’ll put them on this channel
I don’t think the MLB should expand but work on relocation. Oakland is doing that by themselves, but Miami and Tampa need to go elsewhere.
ein Beitrag des Donnerstages, 19. Dezember 2024
In my opinion ...
The MLB should expand to 32 teams!
° 2 leagues with 16 teams each.
° 4 divsions with 8 teams each.
I would like to have an "US Open Baseball Cup" too!
This would be a knockout competition.
The "US Open Baseball Cup" would be played from March to September, with mostly 1 round per month.
The number of MLB´s Regular Season games should be lowered, "a bit"!
The MLB playoff, should be restricted to 8 teams!
° 4 division winners
° 1 best MLB team in "US Open Baseball Cup"
° 3 additional divsion runner ups
The winner and the runner-up, of the same divison, will NOT play each other in the quarter final round, nor in the semi final round!
That Puerto Rican league seemed a bit out of place, given that all the other leagues are the top level of professional play in their nation.
Just to make sure, you do realise that the top level of baseball for Puerto Rico is MLB, because Puerto Rico is a US territory, right?
Puerto Rico has its own teams on the international stage in spite of this fact, so I think talking about the Puerto Rican league as a top flight league seems appropriate
Just North American (inc. the Caribbean), some South American, a few Oceanian, and a few Asian countries. European and African countries must have lacked resources for baseball
Definitely not MLB. I remember after 93 how long is took the pitching pool to recover. Its tough finding enough arms these days.
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