Rob Manfred has been quietly planning to make MLB better. So, when he added ‘expansion’ to the mix during the Mariners-Mets Little League game, it got everyone’s attention. That one mention set off a flurry of talk in baseball. And what followed was a reaction from a club that was seen last in 2004 at the diamond.

Rob Manfred’s words weren’t just small talk either. He made his vision very clear. “I think if we expand, it provides us with an opportunity to geographically realign. I think we could save a lot of wear and tear on our players in terms of travel. And I think our postseason format would be even more appealing…because you’d be playing out of the East and out of the West. And now that the 10 o’clock time slot, where we sometimes get Boston-Anaheim, it would be two West Coast tea

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