This week’s Hustle Double question is whether or not MLB should adopt a European-style promotion and relegation system.
The winner of the debate will be decided by your votes in the poll at the bottom of this post. The debater with the largest proportion of votes will be crowned as the winner and the loser will be ejected from the game and fined an undisclosed amount.
Davies: Introduction, arguing on behalf of promotion-relegation
We tell ourselves MLB is egalitarian, with eight different clubs winning the World Series in the last decade as proof. But of those eight, six are among the 10 most valuable clubs (and Houston is this close), and after watching Cleveland trade anyone with value over the last decade-plus it’s hard to feel like MLB is anything close to equal.