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RE: MLB Expansion or relocation
(01-10-2015 05:23 AM)chargeradio Wrote: If a North Carolina franchise were #31, I could see their expansion partner being another New York/New Jersey team:
AL East - NYY, BOS, TOR, BAL
AL North - DET, CLE, CHW, MN
AL South - TB, NC*, HOU, TEX
AL West - SEA, LAA, OAK, KC
NL East - NYM, NJ*, PHI, WAS
NL North - PIT, CIN, CHC, MIL
NL South - MIA, ATL, AZ, STL
NL West - SD, LAD, SF, CO
An 8x4 alignment would work better if Arizona or Colorado were sent to the AL West, putting Kansas City in the AL South, and Houston in the NL South.
MLB could then go to an NFL style schedule:
Division opponents: 12 games each (36 total)
League opponents: 8 games each (96 total)
Interleague play: 30 games (two entire divisions, 3 games against each opponent; one 3-game series from one opponent from each of the other two divisions based on prior years' standings)
This would also allow each division to play their counterpart in the opposite league every year, so you will always have Mets-Yankees, Marlins-Rays, Orioles-Nationals, etc.
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I'm not a fan of 4-team divisions in pro sports. I'd rather two 8 team divisions inn each league in your scenario:
NL East - NYM, NJ*, PHI, WAS, PIT, CIN, CHC, MIL
NL West - SD, LAD, SF, CO, MIA, ATL, AZ, STL
AL East - NYY, BOS, TOR, BAL, DET, CLE, CHW, MN
AL West - SEA, LAA, OAK, KC, TB, NC*, HOU, TEX
I'd realign your grouping this way for more continuity:
NL East - NYM, NJ*, PHI, PIT, CIN, WAS, MIA, ATL
NL West - SD, LAD, SF, CO, AZ, STL, CHC, MIL
AL East - NYY, BOS, TOR, BAL, DET, CLE, TB, NC*
AL West - SEA, LAA, OAK, KC, CHW, MN, HOU, TEX
You could replace NC with Nashville for better concentration of population as per some of the posts above.
Playoffs would ideally just be the two division winners in each league, but more realistically would be two division winners and two wild cards with best records. Or you could have three or four wild cards with some or all of them in single-elimination games before facing division winners.
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