{"id":96044,"date":"2025-08-20T05:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96044\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T05:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:25:08","slug":"mets-arent-dwelling-on-mlb-realignment-rumors-as-debate-rages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96044\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets aren&#8217;t dwelling on MLB realignment rumors as debate rages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Fans and media have <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/18\/sports\/rob-manfreds-mlb-realignment-idea-being-met-with-harsh-reactions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debated feverishly<\/a> over the past few days following commissioner Rob Manfred grabbing an ESPN microphone and expressing a desire to \u201cgeographically realign\u201d Major League Baseball upon adding two additional expansion teams at some point in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets have been less preoccupied with the notion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is he doing that?\u201d Tyrone Taylor said of the commissioner upon a reporter briefing him of the vague plan. \u201cTwo extra teams, that\u2019s pretty cool though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whenever MLB adds a pair of new franchises \u2014 Nashville, Tenn., Raleigh, N.C., Charlotte, N.C., Salt Lake City and Portland, Ore., have been among the interested locales \u2014 the majors would expand to 32 teams, which could open other avenues toward regular-season and postseason scheduling and formatting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Fans and media have debated feverishly over the past few days following commissioner Rob Manfred grabbing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20913,363,1189,99,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-96044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-clay-holmes","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-mets","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}