Source: http://ift.tt/IsN8HP --- Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Running wild with wild rumors. It seems like Baseball has a quarterly tradition of talking expansion and realignment. Maybe that’s an effort to avoid talking about the juiced ball, but Baseball has a long history of talking about adding new teams and changing up the divisions. It’s rare for these things to actually happen, and that’s probably good - the sport is best off sticking with consistency for at least a reasonable amount of time. Adding teams and changing schedules and getting ownership buy-in and all that non-sense is no easy task in a sport that often lacks common sense. Getting it right is important, cause fixing it can take forever. Anyway, yet again there are rumors that the league might add teams and shift the division landscape. These rumors are tepid at best, and probably not worth talking about unless your team is on vacation and the rumors involve being in the same division as your cross-bay rivals. From Tracy Ringolsby at Baseball America : Consider four eight-team divisions with the addition of teams in Portland and Montreal: 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. Rea ...
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