MLB News Outside The Confines: Is realignment coming?

Good morning. Realignment is coming when expansion happens—probably in 2030. The issue is going to be whether or not the National and American League division survives. • I wrote about this in Monday night’s “BCB After Dark”, but commissioner Rob Manfred dropped a trial balloon about “radical realignment” that would eliminate the National and American Leagues and replace them with an Eastern and Western conference. • Bradford Doolittle takes a stab at what a new 32-team, four divisions of eight teams each MLB alignment would like. Also about how all this would work. • Here’s an attempt to make an eight-divisions of four realignment. • Matt Snyder is all for realignment—as long as the traditional National and American Leagues are preserved. • Stephen J. Nesbitt manages to come up