Rob Manfred Touts MLB Realignment, Expansion. Here’s How It Could Look
The post Rob Manfred Touts MLB Realignment, Expansion. Here’s How It Could Look appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has talked about expansion of the league for more than a decade. Now, regional realignment has come front and center with it. Here’s the details. (Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images) Getty Images MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has said that when the league expands to 32 teams, regional realignment would occur. Here’s why the league is moving in that direction and how it might look. Manfred was interviewed as part of ESPN’s broadcast of the Little League Classic from Williamsport, when he was asked about the expansion of Major League Baseball. “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. I think our postseason format would be even more appealing for entities like ESPN because you’d be playing out of the East, out of the West, and that 10 o’clock where we sometimes get Boston-Anaheim would be two West Coast teams. That 10 o’clock slot that’s a problem for us sometimes becomes a real opportunity for our West Coast audience.” Manfred has been touting expansion and realignment for a decade now (see within my story from 2015). “From a technical perspective it would be easier to divide the schedule up by four,” Manfred said to me at the time. “Having five teams in the divisions is problematic from a scheduling perspective.” In terms of geographic realignment, the addition of the designated hitter in the National League and MLB’s shift to a balanced schedule, where all teams play each other at least once during the season, have set the stage for the National and American leagues to become blurred. As I wrote last year (Two Changes To Allow MLB Regional Realignment Has Happened…
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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has talked about expansion of the league for more than a decade. Now, regional realignment has come front and center with it. Here’s the details. (Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images) Getty Images MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has said that when the league expands to 32 teams, regional realignment would occur. Here’s why the league is moving in that direction and how it might look. Manfred was interviewed as part of ESPN’s broadcast of the Little League Classic from Williamsport, when he was asked about the expansion of Major League Baseball. “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. I think our postseason format would be even more appealing for entities like ESPN because you’d be playing out of the East, out of the West, and that 10 o’clock where we sometimes get Boston-Anaheim would be two West Coast teams. That 10 o’clock slot that’s a problem for us sometimes becomes a real opportunity for our West Coast audience.” Manfred has been touting expansion and realignment for a decade now (see within my story from 2015). “From a technical perspective it would be easier to divide the schedule up by four,” Manfred said to me at the time. “Having five teams in the divisions is problematic from a scheduling perspective.” In terms of geographic realignment, the addition of the designated hitter in the National League and MLB’s shift to a balanced schedule, where all teams play each other at least once during the season, have set the stage for the National and American leagues to become blurred. As I wrote last year (Two Changes To Allow MLB Regional Realignment Has Happened…
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