My goals: Eliminate tanking, make all owners want to field competitive teams, allow players and owners to equally share in revenue, improve the pace/entertainment of games.

Salaries/Revenue:

-Owner would need to full open their books to an impartial third party that players agree upon.

-Owners and players would settle on a % of overall revenues that they would receive - let's say 50%. This 50% would be divided by the number of teams and be not only a salary cap, but a floor as well (see the next items). No team could spend more than this amount and would need to take this into account when it comes to in-season trades.

-Each player would qualify for ML pay credits based on their salary divided by the number of games they are on the active MLB roster for whatever team(s) they are playing throughout the year.

-At the end of the year, each team's portion of player salaries that was not spent would be divided out and given (based on a ratio of the pay credits formula above) to all players that were on their MLB roster for at least one game to bring that team's salary spend up to the agreed %.

-Revenue sharing between teams would need to be more like the NFL with all gate/concession/tv revenue split something like 60/40 by the home/away teams.

Rules Changes:

-Add the DH in the National league

-Institute a pitch clock as well as forcing the batter to stay in the batter's box. Perhaps give each pitcher and hitter a number of times they can receive exceed this per game without penalty, much like the current limitation on mound visits (SP - 3 times, RP - 1 time, hitter - 1 time).

-Eliminate the shift and if possible, move back the fences at all parks 10-20 feet to make put more balls in play (less strikeouts/homeruns).

-Allow unlimited relief pitcher changes (without making them pitch to three batters), but have pitchers to be already in the team dugout and ready to come in instead of having to run in from the dugout. They will have 30 seconds once they reach the mound to take practice pitches and there will be a picture-in-picture tv commercial like what is done in soccer games instead of cutting away completely.

-Have a runner starting on second base in extra innings once the game makes it past the 10th inning (only during regular season).

Re-alignment/interleage play:

-Add two further teams to get to 32 teams overall, with 4 8-team divisions.

-Have the top in each 8 team division make the playoffs along with a best of three play-in series from the next two in each division.

-As there will be salary parity, the un-balanced schedule can remain within each 8-team division, though there should always be at least one home and away series between each team in each league once a year.

-Remove all interleague play or at most keep a single "rivalry" once a year for a home and away series.

Further radical ideas:

-Have a "draft pick" tournament of all teams that did not make the playoffs to determine the draft order of the first round of the next draft. Players on teams that did make the playoffs will all be given large enough bonuses to remove any impetus for managers/team wanting them to tank.

-Change the draft to be more like the NHL draft where high school players are handled. The rights of such players that are drafted can be held by the team that drafted them until their next draftable time (for high school players, the next period would be after their sophomore year of college like it is now) for a cost of X dollars. This would bring back a manner of the old draft and follow option that was around a while back and allow teams to take a hedged flyer on a high end high school player and retain their rights through the next draft. If that player did not sign, they would then go back into the following season's draft (after their Junior season) without restrictions. Each draft position will have a specific value that is set. This will eliminate negotiation/holdouts/etc. Institute an international player draft.

-Allow managers to give up a full inning of batting for an extra out in a current inning (For example the bases are loaded in the 6th, your team is down 2 runs and a hitter just struck out for the 3rd out. Instead of losing what might be your best opportunity to tie the game, you bring up another batter, but lose your 9th inning to bat). This will bring in some strategy to the game with the benefit of possibly shortening games by 1-2 innings, but not doing so arbitrability just to shorten them.