This past Sunday night, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred made on-the-air comments that brought expansion back to the national baseball conversation, and with it, the idea of geographical realignment.

By the time the league expands – most likely by two teams – it will have been 30 years or more since the last time MLB expanded when the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays came online in 1998. That’s the longest stretch in the post-expansion era that began in 1961.

Expansion could impact the Atlanta Braves as two cities in “Braves Country” have often been mentioned as possible homes for new teams – Nashville and Charlotte. Two other cities on the fringes of the Braves Southeastern footprint, Orlando and Raleigh-Durham, NC have also been in the conversation, even if the likelihood of a

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