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Recently, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred noted that the league could realign geographically. FOX Sports outlined a plan that would group four major teams.
Others are less definitive on Salt Lake City getting an expansion team, but ESPN’s Bradford Doolittle noted this week that Salt Lake City is among four cities located in the West that have a real shot and landing a franchise, along with San Jose, California; Portland, Oregon; and Vancouver, British Columbia.
During the Little League Classic between the New York Mets and Seattle Mariners on ESPN, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred hinted at a big change.
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Doing away with traditional leagues could be in MLB’s not-too-distant future, Rob Manfred says
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred told a national TV audience that expansion likely would be tied to reshuffling leagues and divisions to ease travel.
After radical realignment, Yankees, Mets fans will have to ‘relearn who they hate and who they love’
If Major League Baseball undergoes radical realignment and puts the Yankees and Mets in the same division down the road, their fans will have to “relearn who to love and who to hate” in terms of opposing teams.
If Major League Baseball expands to 32 teams in the future, divisions could be realigned, according to recent remarks from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred.
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SB Nation on MSNHow MLB realignment might impact the Braves
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.
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The Telegraph on MSNWhat MLB expansion and realignment could mean for the Cardinals
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred hinted at the Little League World Series that as the possible expansion to 32 teams gains traction, a geographical realignment in regard to which teams are in which divisions,
During an interview with ESPN's Karl Ravech on August 17th, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred discussed a potential league realignment and its potential impact on the sport. Manfred discussed making a four-team division format in two separate leagues,
Baseball insiders have whispered about the possibility of regional-based realignment for a few years. MLB commissioner Rob Mandred was asked directly about it on Sunday night during an ESPN broadcast, and didn’t shy away from his next bold rules change.