Why not? Seems half the teams are out of the running before August begins and are looking to be sellers. I think most people would rather their team have a chance in the playoffs then watching 12-20 more useless and futile regular season games. Allow trading draft picks would be good too. We could see the Washington Nationals trade their 1st rounder next season and 2 blue chip prospects for Noah Syndergaard for example.
first off, half the teams are out of the running from the beginning of the season but that's a different ball of wax.
second, if you're not good enough after 150 games, you're not good enough. the idea of turning the postseason into a second season does two things:
- it absolutely trivializes the regular season from the start because it's never about the regular season or having a good roster. it's about what you're going to do in the postseason. and if you're not in it for the postseason, what are you even doing?
- it lengthens the postseason even further, which even in this scenario of the season being 150 games, the playoffs would be going until nearly thanksgiving with half the league making the playoffs. it's bad enough we're encroaching on halloween now and that's just with the stupid half wildcard spots.
allowing draft picks to be traded doesn't really work in the mlb system either. international slot money is different because it's a pool. draft picks have a soft cap (the nationals first round pick this year was capped at $3,609,700) that teams will try to game by drafting a player that's easier to sign with that pick in order to draft other players later and be able to offer them more. how would that work in your proposal? the nationals lose that money from their overall pool ($5,979,600)? i doubt they agree to give up over half of their draft pool as well as two blue chip prospects (which they don't really have) just to bring syndergaard in.
if you're talking overthrowing the entire draft and turning it into a free agency thing, that's great in theory. but this bell has been rung. owners got everything they wanted and are hinting at an international draft next. none of this is good news for the baseball fan.