Article: Week in Review: Short But Sweet

[Mr. Brooks]

The good reason is that half of MLB teams can be considered northern teams. NYY, NYM, Bos, Phi, Pit, Cle, Bal, Cin, Det, CWS, ChC, Min, Col, StL, KC. Is it fair to have all those teams play lots of road games early in the season, always, every year? Probably not.

The northern teams would love to play a lot of road games early in the year, when school is still in session.

It's the southern teams that would never go for giving up a bunch of their summer home games when bed time isn't an issue.

[Thegrin]

I'd like to see some old fashion "pitch to contact" with some quick outs. These 10 pitch at bats will wear out any pitching staff before the summer gets here.  

[diehardtwinsfan]

 

The good reason is that half of MLB teams can be considered northern teams. NYY, NYM, Bos, Phi, Pit, Cle, Bal, Cin, Det, CWS, ChC, Min, Col, StL, KC. Is it fair to have all those teams play lots of road games early in the season, always, every year? Probably not.

 

I'm not going to pretend it would be perfect, but it does make more sense to be playing games further south. I'd note that several teams you mentioned (particularly KC, STL, Pit, and Phi) which in general would be safer (random spring blizzards excluded) as those climates do tend to be a bit warmer come April. 

[wsnydes]

 

The good reason is that half of MLB teams can be considered northern teams. NYY, NYM, Bos, Phi, Pit, Cle, Bal, Cin, Det, CWS, ChC, Min, Col, StL, KC. Is it fair to have all those teams play lots of road games early in the season, always, every year? Probably not.

The flip side of this is that southern teams could also play fewer games at home when it's 95+ and humid.

 

Ultimately, I think it's a balancing act. I'm sure that most teams do actually want early home games to capitalize on the new season's optimism. Where a team like the Twins fail is that they have a prolonged period where they haven't been very good. While the cold weather does act as a deterrent, it's not as though this team has drawn well even when the weather does improve. If the team was good, people would still come out to the ballpark regardless of the weather. 

[Mike Sixel]

 

The northern teams would love to play a lot of road games early in the year, when school is still in session.
It's the southern teams that would never go for giving up a bunch of their summer home games when bed time isn't an issue.

 

Exactly.

[h2oface]

Vasquez replaced by Duffey. He got one outing, and at the wrong time to put him in the game. He was horrible, but he shouldn't even have been put in the game with the bases loaded for his first and only MLB appearance. Now Duffey. A proven commodity, eh?