Source: www.twinkietown.com --- Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Minnesota is not on the east coast, people. There’s been a lot of buzz in the Baseball blogosphere lately about MLB potentially expanding to 32 teams. Whether MLB has realistic plans to do this soon , I don’t know—but I do know Baseball is down to just two playoff series-es now, and Baseball writers need something to write about. Hence, MLB expansion and realignment talk it is! Baseball America published a post yesterday espousing an idea for MLB expansion and realignment and it caught my eye. It caught my eye because I friggin’ hate it. Here’s the gist: MLB would create new teams in Montreal and Portland, Oregon. Since that would mess up MLB’s current divisional lineup—a nice and tidy five teams per division—we’d have to make new divisions to keep them equal in size. Instead of doing eight divisions of four teams each, the author suggests getting rid of the AL and NL leagues completely and just having four divisions of eight teams each. Here’s the suggested configuration: East : Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Miami, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay and Washington. North : Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Minnesota, Montreal, both New York franchises and Toronto. Midwest : Both Chicago franchises, Colorado, Houston, Kansas City, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Texas. West : Anaheim, Arizona, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. While I’m not a huge fan of eight divisions of four teams, I’m a biased Twins ...
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