(12-24-2025 12:48 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Midwestern teams don’t want to be forced into playing a bunch of games in the west coast in timeslots that aren’t conducive to going to work the next morning.

Baseball needs to work towards getting a division alignment where no one on Central Time is sharing a division with a Pacific time club. (And no eastern time clubs playing the tiny handful on Mountain.

(12-26-2025 11:43 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  

(12-24-2025 12:48 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Midwestern teams don’t want to be forced into playing a bunch of games in the west coast in timeslots that aren’t conducive to going to work the next morning.

Baseball needs to work towards getting a division alignment where no one on Central Time is sharing a division with a Pacific time club. (And no eastern time clubs playing the tiny handful on Mountain.

This is the real reason the AL and NL are going to die.

Pacific - Seattle, San Francisco, LA Dodgers, LA Angels, San Diego, Athletics, Arizona, Colorado

Central - Houston, Texas, Kansas City, St. Louis, Minnesota, Milwaukee, Cubs, White Sox

East - Miami, Atlanta, Tampa Bay, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh

Atlantic - Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, NY Mets, NY Yankees, Boston, Toronto


If Utah and Portland wind up being the expansion teams, move Houston and Texas to the East, and Pittsburgh to the Atlantic. If it's Charlotte and Nashville, they go the Atlantic and East (at least initially). One form each half of the country will be a bit problematic in terms of alignment.

(12-30-2025 05:37 AM)BePcr07 Wrote:  It seems MLB likes more divisions rather than less divisions so I can’t imagine they abandon the 6x5 unless they go to 8x4 post-expansion. It also seems like we’re headed toward geographical alignment. My expansion choice would would Carolina and Nashville but I’d bet on Nashville and Utah.

Eastern Conference
Atlantic: Boston, New York, New York, Philadelphia
Metro: Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Washington
North: Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee
Southeast: Atlanta, Miami, Nashville, Tampa Bay

Western Conference
Central: Colorado, Houston, Kansas City, Texas
Midwest: Chicago, Chicago, Minnesota, St. Louis
Pacific: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle
Souhwest: Arizona, Las Vegas, San Diego, Utah

(12-30-2025 05:16 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  If MLB is at 32, they'd be remiss in not moving to an 8x4 or 4x8 division setup. But on the off chance they do a full geographic realignment, having 8 divisions of 4 sort of defeats the purpose, as they'd be breaking up too many existing rivalries and preventing many potential regional intradivisional rivalries from forming. In your setup above, you're missing out on pairings such as:

Chicago Cubs/Milwaukee
Chicago White Sox/Milwaukee
Colorado/Utah
Kansas City/St. Louis
LA Angels/San Diego
LA Dodgers/San Diego
Milwaukee/Minnesota
Philadelphia/Pittsburgh

All of these and others could be formed/retained via an alignment of 4 divisions of 8 (and 2 Eastern expansion teams).