MLB expansion has been a topic of discussion for years now, but it appears owners and executives aren’t on board with the idea. <\/p>\n
One owner told Bob Nightengale<\/a> of USA Today that “expansion would just be stupid.” Another owner said it isn’t even “being discussed right now,” while an executive said they “don’t think it’s going to happen.” <\/p>\n Various markets have been seen as possible expansion locations, with Nashville and Sacramento perhaps being the two most popular. An ownership group in Nashville has already come up with a team name and logo. <\/p>\n Other markets like Vancouver, Salt Lake City, Charlotte, Portland, and Orlando have also been viewed as potential expansion sites. <\/p>\n MLB hasn’t expanded since 1998, when the Tampa Bay Rays and Arizona Diamondbacks were added. <\/p>\n There is still no official plan for expansion, but MLB commissioner Rob Manfred discussed<\/a> in January a split-season format and an in-season tournament that would require at least 32 teams. Manfred first started discussing expansion<\/a> over a decade ago, but only recently has the idea started to gain more traction. <\/p>\n The commissioner may be ready to expand, but it seems he might be met with some pushback from owners. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLB expansion has been a topic of discussion for years now, but it appears owners and executives aren’t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-340570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}