During Sunday night’s Little League Classic between the New York Mets and Seattle Mariners, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred talked about the possibility of not just expansion, but also a total overhaul of the leagues as we know them.<\/p>\n
“I think if we expand, it provides us with an opportunity to geographically realign,” he told ESPN. “I think we could save a lot of wear and tear on our players in terms of travel. And I think our postseason format would be even more appealing for entities like ESPN, because you’d be playing out of the east and out of the west.”<\/p>\n
So, basically a Western Conference and an Eastern Conference, as is the case in both the NBA and NHL?<\/p>\n
Naturally, most baseball fans revolted against the idea, as we tend to do every time any sort of change is suggested about our beloved pastime. <\/p>\n
Rather than digging in our heels, though, and pouting about the tarnishing of the century-and-a-quarter history of the American League and century-and-a-half history of the National League, let’s use these August doldrums to take a good, hard look at what that might look like.<\/p>\n
First things first, which two cities would get added to the mix?<\/p>\n
And once we nail that down, what would an eight-division map look like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Sunday night’s Little League Classic between the New York Mets and Seattle Mariners, Major League Baseball commissioner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-81701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}