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Originally Posted by Jason Moyer
Baseball should add a third team to NY and a second team to Philly. Would never happen, but they have the markets to handle it.
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I agree with New York.
I so don't agree with Philly. The only three metros with two teams is New York, Chicago, and LA. All are 10mil plus. That seems to be the cutoff line for support for two teams in a metro area. Philly is nowhere near that, plus what LGO said.
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Originally Posted by Jason Moyer
Interestingly, looking at metropolitan size, the biggest unserved markets right now for baseball are Puerto Rico and Portland (with metro sizes in the same ballpark as Denver and Pittsburgh).. Is there any doubt an expansion team in San Juan would do well?
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Huge doubts, as LGO pointed out earlier. However, I wondered where you got your data form, and if it was US centric sources, because here's the top 40 metros not serviced by a pro ball team in North America at present.
- 1 - Mexico City - 21,163,226 *
- 13 - Guadalajara - 4,434,252 *
- 16 - Riverside-San Bernardino - 4,224,851 **
- 19 - Monterrey - 4,080,329 *
- 20 - Montreal - 3,824,221
- 27 - El Paso-Juarez - 2,700,000 ***
- 29 - Puebla - 2,668,347 *
- 30 - San Juan - 2,617,089 *
- 32 - Vancouver - 2,313,328
- 36 - Charlotte - 2,296,569
- 37 - Portland - 2,289,800
- 39 - Sacramento - 2,149,127
- 40 - San Antonio - 2,142,508
* - Listed in Mexico. Their peso is currently 1/10th the value of the American dollar, and the same reasons for why Puerto Rico isn't a viable market are only amplified here.
** - Not entirely familiar with where this is in California, are they serviced by the Angels?
*** - Cross border area. Would have similar problems with a certain section being in Mexico, and border fun to add to the mix.
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here. I've excluded central american teams for ease of reading, since the list would be a bit longer with them in it, and they all suffer from the same problem that San Juan would have.). The bolded cities are the ones that would be in areas with high enough GDP, and markets that aren't handicapped by a very depressed currency compared to the US.Portland comes in 5th of what's available (4th if Riverside is serviced by the Angels)