Trying to give ATL another 14 straight divisions. I’ll take it.
Oh man, imagine if this was right now, and Brewers, Tigers and Jays were all in one division….
With poor Minnesota.
I question why Detroit isn’t with Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Toronto. Geographically it makes more sense than being with 2 central time zones.
I’m only against it just bc all the other mock divisions I’ve seen have some sort of combination between the Yankees, Phills, Red Sox, Mets, Braves, and Rays all being in a division with the nats. I’d like to actually watch some winning baseball sooner rather than later😂
I’d be cool with the AL east having Toronto instead of the Mets. Don’t wanna be rivals with my Mets bros.
Holy shit, Mets Phillies Yankees and Boston in one division?!
Man but that CA division would be fire
Purely geographical, I get it. This is how college football should be, the SEC in particular. Pros, nah I’m good bro, let those dudes travel.
A Yankees, Phillies, Mets, and Red Sox division is chaos.
Dismantling the AL and NL all together feels eerily dystopian to be honest
I don’t know how anything east of Colorado can be considered west
He’s already eroded traditional parts of this game. I can’t stand playing every team now, and I will say it, I like the National League better when pitchers hit.
Don’t hate this realignment plan – but I think an expansion team in Salt Lake City, Utah would do a lot better than a team in Portland, Oregon. Yes, it would be nice to give the Mariners a true geographic rival. But the same could be said for giving the Rockies a rival, and also giving MLB a second team in the Mountain Time Zone.
My preference would be to keep all divisions in tact, and over time add one team to each division: Portland Oregon (AL West), SLC Utah (NL West), Montreal Expos (NL East), Charlotte Carolina (AL East), Nashville (AL Central), Mexico City (NL Central). And to nitpick: you would probably want to move the Rays to Orlando, Florida and the Marlins to Monterrey, Mexico.
2 teams currently play in minor league ball parks and there’s about 5 teams like Miami or Pittsburgh that are running glorified AAA ball teams and living off revenue sharing and tv revenue.
No way the league should expand
Who hires Rob Manfred?
Manfred is a disease
I’m not a “traditionalist” by any means, I think mlb should be open to changes that make the game better. But there is no benefit to the game from getting rid of the leagues. It is literally throwing out 125 years of the two leagues to save money on travel. It is exactly what you’d expect having a commissioner who doesn’t like the sport he’s commissioning.
Organizing by timezone makes more sense than some of what is shown here.
Stop making crazy proposals, stop changing the rules, stop messing around with the baseball, stop protecting terrible umpires, etc. etc.
There’s really no AL/NL now anyway. They’ve destroyed that over the years.
This map is just some crackpot at the New York Post’s idea— it isn’t a real proposal by Manfred or anyone
The Mets and Yankees facing each other more than a few games a year just sounds so fucking exhausting.
I like it. Teams play everyone anyway. Make the divisions local as best possible. I like the AAA model of bigger series. I’m probably the minority but after the DH being league wide, no need for AL and NL.
I actually like this.
It’s not horrible
Expansion and some realignment I can deal with. Not my favorite, but baseball has done it before and been fine. However, doing away with the nearly century and a half of history behind the NL and AL would absolutely suck.
Yankees , Phillies , Red Sox , Mets in the same division , so yall want riots
Just an awful idea overall. Plus they’ll still end up playing all of the other teams.
He really doesn’t understand (or respect) the history of the game. He wants it to be basketball.
I’m a baseball romantic and purist but… I don’t hate it 🫣
Just started looking at this but my first dislike is doing away with the term League and using Conference. The other 3 major sports use the term conference. Changing MLB to Conference just takes away it’s uniqueness IMO.
You should not have 2 teams from the same cities represented in the same division let alone league.
The NL and AL should not change dramatically for MLB expansion. The divisions should try to be maintained as much as possible to keep historic rivalries together.
Switch Angels for Diamondbacks and the west is fine because you are keeping the divisions relatively in tact.
The central area of the country is…… rough. It wont be entirely fixed, but this is my solution.
Cincy, Pittsburgh, Cubs, and Cards stay together and the Brewers get ousted.
Brewers(*), Twins, Detroit, and White Sox for AL.
Yankees, Boston, Jays, and Orioles AL
Phillies, Mets, Nationals, Cleveland(*) NL
Brewers and Cleveland switch league affiliation.
Im not a fan of both Texas and Florida teams being both in the same division (I know that the Astros and Rangers are currently together, it just think that inner state teams should have a chance to meet in the World Series even though i think those are boring because only one state cares about it), but there isnt really a way to keep the divisions close enough geographically to make it better like in the other divisions.
I don’t hate it?
You can tell this is just some random person dividing the league and not Manfreds or the MLBs ideas.
The same city will never host two teams in the same division ever again. The Cubs/Sox & Mets/Yankees aliments just will not happen. And I feel like anyone who thinks they might just doesn’t follow the game or know it’s history to know why it will never happen again.
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Trying to give ATL another 14 straight divisions. I’ll take it.
Oh man, imagine if this was right now, and Brewers, Tigers and Jays were all in one division….
With poor Minnesota.
I question why Detroit isn’t with Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Toronto. Geographically it makes more sense than being with 2 central time zones.
I’m only against it just bc all the other mock divisions I’ve seen have some sort of combination between the Yankees, Phills, Red Sox, Mets, Braves, and Rays all being in a division with the nats. I’d like to actually watch some winning baseball sooner rather than later😂
I’d be cool with the AL east having Toronto instead of the Mets. Don’t wanna be rivals with my Mets bros.
Holy shit, Mets Phillies Yankees and Boston in one division?!
Man but that CA division would be fire
Purely geographical, I get it. This is how college football should be, the SEC in particular. Pros, nah I’m good bro, let those dudes travel.
A Yankees, Phillies, Mets, and Red Sox division is chaos.
Dismantling the AL and NL all together feels eerily dystopian to be honest
I don’t know how anything east of Colorado can be considered west
He’s already eroded traditional parts of this game. I can’t stand playing every team now, and I will say it, I like the National League better when pitchers hit.
Don’t hate this realignment plan – but I think an expansion team in Salt Lake City, Utah would do a lot better than a team in Portland, Oregon. Yes, it would be nice to give the Mariners a true geographic rival. But the same could be said for giving the Rockies a rival, and also giving MLB a second team in the Mountain Time Zone.
My preference would be to keep all divisions in tact, and over time add one team to each division: Portland Oregon (AL West), SLC Utah (NL West), Montreal Expos (NL East), Charlotte Carolina (AL East), Nashville (AL Central), Mexico City (NL Central). And to nitpick: you would probably want to move the Rays to Orlando, Florida and the Marlins to Monterrey, Mexico.
2 teams currently play in minor league ball parks and there’s about 5 teams like Miami or Pittsburgh that are running glorified AAA ball teams and living off revenue sharing and tv revenue.
No way the league should expand
Who hires Rob Manfred?
Manfred is a disease
I’m not a “traditionalist” by any means, I think mlb should be open to changes that make the game better. But there is no benefit to the game from getting rid of the leagues. It is literally throwing out 125 years of the two leagues to save money on travel. It is exactly what you’d expect having a commissioner who doesn’t like the sport he’s commissioning.
Organizing by timezone makes more sense than some of what is shown here.
Stop making crazy proposals, stop changing the rules, stop messing around with the baseball, stop protecting terrible umpires, etc. etc.
There’s really no AL/NL now anyway. They’ve destroyed that over the years.
This map is just some crackpot at the New York Post’s idea— it isn’t a real proposal by Manfred or anyone
The Mets and Yankees facing each other more than a few games a year just sounds so fucking exhausting.
I like it. Teams play everyone anyway. Make the divisions local as best possible. I like the AAA model of bigger series. I’m probably the minority but after the DH being league wide, no need for AL and NL.
I actually like this.
It’s not horrible
Expansion and some realignment I can deal with. Not my favorite, but baseball has done it before and been fine. However, doing away with the nearly century and a half of history behind the NL and AL would absolutely suck.
Yankees , Phillies , Red Sox , Mets in the same division , so yall want riots
Just an awful idea overall. Plus they’ll still end up playing all of the other teams.
He really doesn’t understand (or respect) the history of the game. He wants it to be basketball.
I’m a baseball romantic and purist but… I don’t hate it 🫣
Just started looking at this but my first dislike is doing away with the term League and using Conference. The other 3 major sports use the term conference. Changing MLB to Conference just takes away it’s uniqueness IMO.
You should not have 2 teams from the same cities represented in the same division let alone league.
The NL and AL should not change dramatically for MLB expansion. The divisions should try to be maintained as much as possible to keep historic rivalries together.
Switch Angels for Diamondbacks and the west is fine because you are keeping the divisions relatively in tact.
The central area of the country is…… rough. It wont be entirely fixed, but this is my solution.
Cincy, Pittsburgh, Cubs, and Cards stay together and the Brewers get ousted.
Brewers(*), Twins, Detroit, and White Sox for AL.
Yankees, Boston, Jays, and Orioles AL
Phillies, Mets, Nationals, Cleveland(*) NL
Brewers and Cleveland switch league affiliation.
Im not a fan of both Texas and Florida teams being both in the same division (I know that the Astros and Rangers are currently together, it just think that inner state teams should have a chance to meet in the World Series even though i think those are boring because only one state cares about it), but there isnt really a way to keep the divisions close enough geographically to make it better like in the other divisions.
I don’t hate it?
You can tell this is just some random person dividing the league and not Manfreds or the MLBs ideas.
The same city will never host two teams in the same division ever again. The Cubs/Sox & Mets/Yankees aliments just will not happen. And I feel like anyone who thinks they might just doesn’t follow the game or know it’s history to know why it will never happen again.
First to 70 wins in that Pirates division
Closer to NHL. I dunno. I love hockey.