A week ago Sunday, Commissioner Rob Manfred appeared on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball broadcast of the Little League Classic and broached the idea of MLB expansion:

“I think if we expand, it provides us with an opportunity to geographically realign,” Manfred said. “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 for entities like ESPN, because you’d be playing out of the east and out of the west.”

Well. First of all, this was a bit of pandering, since Manfred pushed this as a great idea for ESPN while on an ESPN broadcast. Further, this idea comes up every so often and nothing actually happens. The last MLB expansion was in 1998 — that’s quite some time ago, 27 years, and the two before that wer

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