"There's just a major structural problem," Ohman said. "It's not an even playing field. And the teams it hurts most are the teams vying for the wild card, because that's based on overall record. So if you're a team going for the National League wild card and you draw the AL East in interleague, it means you're going to run into a buzz saw in New York, Boston and Tampa Bay. And if somebody else is drawing teams that are not of that caliber, that's a distinct disadvantage. It's like they're negating all the other things they've done to create parity."
Dodger reliever Will Ohman told Jayson Stark his thoughts on interleague play, as the Angels come into town this weekend
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Brad Ausmus added
Players do complain about it — unless they get to go to cities they like. Like if you’re playing the White Sox and you get to go to Chicago an extra time, then everybody’s happy about it. Funny how that works
interleague huh?
gee, at first I thought that he was talking about the post season ….
but seriously, I see his point – the schedule can really effect the wild card races by giving a ‘by’ to those teams that draw the easy match-ups.
Something needs to be done to solve (resolve?) this obvious imbalance.
… but then the whole unbalanced schedule is imbalanced! (so thank you Bud Selig)
As an Interleague Play nay sayer, I’d like to see this experiment shelved for a while or curtailed to just one or two regional/natural rivalries.
things are broken ……
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