4. Take Away Home-Field Advantage
In 2002, New York Yankees manager Joe Torre took his concerns to MLB Commissioner Bud Selig about not having any more pitchers at his disposal.
Selig called the game, and thus the second-tie in MLB All-Star Game history took place.
Instead of realizing there might be a better way to attack the situation, Selig and the powers that be decided to make the game mean a little more by determining World Series home-field advantage on the pending result of each Midsummer Classic.
From 2003 on, the winner of this exhibition earns their league the right to play in the World Series with the extra-home game.
Why?
For a long time baseball has struggled with home-field advantage issues. They used to rotated from year to year between leagues which still causes issues.
Keep it simple and allow the team with the better record to have home-field advantage. It’s nonsense to have non-playoff players determining this critical advantage.
The idea provides more grief than success or strategy. Don’t pretend it’s anything other than a friendly exhibition for the fans.
