I’ve spent a lot of time the last couple weeks thinking about the structure of baseball, namely who should be making the major decisions governing the game’s future over the next 20, 30, 40 years. I’ve arrived at the idea that the major strategic issues facing baseball need to be divided along two lines, and the appropriate responsibilities assigned.
There are the financial questions facing the sport — smaller issues like the CBT and minimum salary, and larger problems around revenues developing outside of conventional means, like streaming rights and gambling. How the game recognizes and capitalizes on that potential revenue (if they even understand it), I’m tempted to leave that to the negotiations between the league and players’ union.