{"id":8367,"date":"2011-06-18T23:20:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T03:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/06\/hr-in-baseball---realignment-and-expansion.html"},"modified":"2011-06-18T23:20:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T03:20:55","slug":"hr-in-baseball-realignment-and-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/06\/hr-in-baseball-realignment-and-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"HR in Baseball &#8211; Realignment and Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my idea for MLB realignment. I&#8217;d love to hear from baseball fans; let me know what you think. I think baseball should add a National League team in Boston (the market can certainly support another team) and an American League team in Omaha, Nebraska or a similar Mid-South market. There would be 4 division winners (no wild-card) and some more natural rivalries if Houston and Tampa swap leagues and if Colorado moves to American League West.<\/p>\n<p>This would cut down on travel time and create some more natural rivalries between franchises. It would keep the DH in the American League and still allow interleague play on a limited basis similar to the current setup.<\/p>\n<p>Each team would play 21 games against each team in their division (63 games), 7 games against each team in the other league divisions (84 games), and 15 interleague games.<\/p>\n<p>American League East &#8211; Yankees, Red Sox, Baltimore, Toronto<\/p>\n<p>American League Central &#8211; White Sox, Minnesota, Detroit, Cleveland<\/p>\n<p>American League Mid-South &#8211; Kansas City, Omaha Expansion, Texas, Houston<\/p>\n<p>American League West &#8211; Seattle, Colorado, Oakland, LA Angels<\/p>\n<p>National League East &#8211; Mets, Boston Expansion Team, Philly, Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p>National League Central &#8211; Milwaukee, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Cubs<\/p>\n<p>National League Mid-South &#8211; Atlanta, Washington, Florida, Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p>National League West &#8211; LA Dodgers, San Diego, Arizona, San Francisco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my idea for MLB realignment. I&#8217;d love to hear from baseball fans; let me know what you think. I think baseball should add a National League team in Boston (the market can certainly support another team) and an American&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-scheduling","category-time-management"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>HR in Baseball - Realignment and Expansion - Robert Braathe&#039;s HR &amp; Albany Jobs Blog<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/06\/hr-in-baseball-realignment-and-expansion\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HR in Baseball - Realignment and Expansion - Robert Braathe&#039;s HR &amp; Albany Jobs Blog\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#039;s my idea for MLB realignment. 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