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32 teams? No. My plan takes it to 36. My math is 36/6=6.
Also:
1. I mentioned before I hate "state" names; took the liberty to turn some into cities
2. If the NFL can have a new Cleveland Browns, MLB can have a new Montreal Expos. Who knows, maybe a real baseball park will make the difference.
3. Good bye, NL and AL
4. Hello 8 team play-offs. Six divisional winners and to wild cards that can come from any of the divisions. With all the play outside of one's division, there would be real fairness in awarding the wild cards.
5. You play all teams outside your division for one home or away 3 game series: 30 x 3 = 90 games. You play each team in your division 12 times. 12 x 5 = 60. That's 150 games total, plenty with play-off coming up.
6. My expansion teams are not set in stone. Just trying to fill in places without MLB.
CORRIDOR DIVISION
Boston Red Sox
New York Yankees
New York Mets
Philadelphia Phillies
Baltimore Orioles
Washington Nationals
LAKES DIVISION
Detroit Tigers
Chicago Cubs
Chicago White Sox
Milwaukee Brewers
Minnesota Twins
St. Louis Cardinals
AM/CAN DIVISION
Montreal Expos
Toronto Blue Jays
Pittsburgh Pirates
Cleveland Indians
Cincinnati Reds
Indianapolis 500s
CALIFORNIA DIVISION
San Francisco Giants
Oakland Athletics
Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Angels
San Diego Padres
Las Vegas Aces
DIXIE DIVISION
Atlanta Braves
Tampa Bay Rays
Miami Marlins
New Orleans Deltas
Dallas Rangers
Houston Astros
I think this is a terrible idea for a bunch of reasons:
1. Do you really think there are 900 major league players? I don't.
2. We've had the National and American Leagues for over a century and I think getting rid of them would be a terrible loss.
3. We have too many playoff games and the playoffs are too long already. Any time a wild-card team gets into the World Series we know that the World Series champion will not be the best team in baseball. Eliminate wild cards, probably by going back to two divisions in each league and one round of playoffs.
I favor keeping the AL and NL setup. For expansion I want the AL to add two teams, raising it from 14 teams to 16 as in the NL. I think the playoffs are about right, five game series, not seven games like hockey and basketball, man, that's just overkill on the part of the NHL and NBA.
My suggestions are:
1. Las Vegas gets an AL-West team, which only has 4 teams. No other division in baseball has only 4 teams. There are NL teams in Phoenix and Denver but no AL team between Dallas and Los Angeles, which is 1437 driving miles or 1251 air miles. Las Vegas is large enough to have the critical mass to support a team - plus hundreds of thousands of visitors on any given day, which adds an alternative to sitting in a casino all the time.
2. Havana gets an AL team. Yes; Havana, Cuba. It goes into the AL East. Baseball is huge in the Caribbean, especially Cuba. After Castro passes, we should offer a team to Havana as a gesture to let old bygones be bygones, jumpstart modern investment there, generate tourism, and create decent economic conditions so Cubans will no longer need to flee to Miami.
Side issues:
Both proposed sites are warm weather cities. This allows to start the first two weeks of the season in milder climates without fear of snow delays, like we see some years when they try to play baseball in open-air stadiums in early April in northern cities.
Among the possible places mentioned in the OP: Portland, Las Vegas, San Antonio, and Virginia Beach, it seems Las Vegas is the best choice. I'm from VA, and I don't see VA Beach supporting it at all.
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It'll be worse than ever!!! The talent pool just isn't their.
There is talent out there, plenty of it. You just have to look that much harder. We can find good baseball players from the Caribbean, South America(Colombia and Venezuela specifically), and the Far East. We can find good players here in the USA.
I wouldn't say that. The Dodgers, Angels, and Padres are a county away from each other. Sacramento could work out.
Charlotte could work. It would have to draw a fan base from South Carolina.
The Piedmont Triad almost had a team when the Minnesota Twins were thinking of relocating to North Carolina.
Correction, the Twins did consider moving when Carl Pohlad was about to sell the team to a buyer from the Piedmont Triad back in 1997. However, the funding for a new stadium was shot down by voters in a referendum.
MLB considered contracting the Twins back in 2002 (as well as the Expos). Some say that Bud Selig chose the Twins because apparently he wanted more ratings and attendance for his Brewers.
Correction, the Twins did consider moving when Carl Pohlad was about to sell the team to a buyer from the Piedmont Triad back in 1997. However, the funding for a new stadium was shot down by voters in a referendum.
MLB considered contracting the Twins back in 2002 (as well as the Expos). Some say that Bud Selig chose the Twins because apparently he wanted more ratings and attendance for his Brewers.
Good Call. I forgot about that whole North Carolina business before those contraction talks.
As for new teams, I think it would be great for baseball to have the Brewers back in the AL Central, and moving a team to the AL west and getting rid of the no -DH in the NL. I would also increase the # of playoff teams.
Good Call. I forgot about that whole North Carolina business before those contraction talks.
As for new teams, I think it would be great for baseball to have the Brewers back in the AL Central, and moving a team to the AL west and getting rid of the no -DH in the NL. I would also increase the # of playoff teams.
The bad part about Milwaukee returning to the AL is it would force the Kansas City Royals to move to the AL West. I'd prefer having either Colorado or Arizona in the AL West so there could be an American League team in the Mountain Time Zone (filling the gap between Los Angeles and Dallas).
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