10 more years of All Star Game wins?
It's interesting to see at the trade deadline this year that most of the significant talent is going from the AL to the NL. The young players coming back (and perhaps some of the traded players coming back when they hit free agency) should help do their part to maintain the AL's position as the stronger league.
It's odd that, while if you made a list of the top young players in MLB, most would be in the NL (Howard, Braun, Reyes, Wright, Utley), the AL's recent dominance seems to be holding. I wonder if there are any structural reasons for that. (Or, in a related question, if there are any structural reasons for the parity in the NL.) I'm inclined to believe that it is a quirk of history, plus the fact that more of the best managed franchises in baseball are in the AL (say A's, Red Sox, Yanks, Indians, Tigers vs. only Braves and Mets in the NL) while more of the worst are in the NL (Cubs, Rockies, Giants, Nats, Pirates vs. D'Rays and Orioles and maybe Rangers.)
It's interesting to see at the trade deadline this year that most of the significant talent is going from the AL to the NL. The young players coming back (and perhaps some of the traded players coming back when they hit free agency) should help do their part to maintain the AL's position as the stronger league.
It's odd that, while if you made a list of the top young players in MLB, most would be in the NL (Howard, Braun, Reyes, Wright, Utley), the AL's recent dominance seems to be holding. I wonder if there are any structural reasons for that. (Or, in a related question, if there are any structural reasons for the parity in the NL.) I'm inclined to believe that it is a quirk of history, plus the fact that more of the best managed franchises in baseball are in the AL (say A's, Red Sox, Yanks, Indians, Tigers vs. only Braves and Mets in the NL) while more of the worst are in the NL (Cubs, Rockies, Giants, Nats, Pirates vs. D'Rays and Orioles and maybe Rangers.)
