As he did with expansion, the automated strike zone, instant replay, the zombie runner, the golden at bat, etc. etc. etc. over the years Rob Manfred opened his mouth in front of a microphone and spouted thoughts about realignment. And for the last few days everyone has been talking about this.

We’ve seen proposals for four team divisions.

There have been people mentioning 8 team divisions if/when MLB expands to 32 teams.

Your typical AL/NL north, south, east, and west divisions.

Balanced schedules?

Moving teams across leagues?

Eliminating the leagues all together!

All of these ideas have pluses and minuses. Anything that really only works with expansion should have to wait until there actually is expansion. Remember when the AL West had four teams and the NL Central had 6? If there

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