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I'll preface with I've spent entirely too much time thinking about this. Expansion is normally my favorite way to play this game as I find it provides more of a challenge (although I haven't started my long term save this year and hear the game is much more challenging). I have spent hours on what realignment and relocation look like. In almost all iterations, I put the Astros back in the NL, for personal reasons, geographical reasons, and balance reasons. Obviously that means both expansion teams will be AL which opens up Canada and Mexico which is fun. This is of course if you are trying to keep everyone else in their original leagues. Below are two options I have
Option #1: Region Based
AL East - BOS/NYY/BAL/TOR
AL North - DET/CLE/CHI/MIN
AL South - KC/TEX/TB/Expansion (ex. Nash., SA, OKC, NO, Lousiville, MEX, etc.)
AL West - SEA/OAK/LAA/Expansion (ex. VAN, POR, Salt Lake, LV, NM, etc.)
NL East - NYM/PHI/WAS/PIT
NL North - MIL/CHI/CIN/STL
NL South - ATL/MIA/HOU/ARI
NL West - SF/LA/SD/COL
Option #2: Time Zone based (recommended)
AL Atlantic - BOS/NYY/TB/BAL
AL Central - CLE/DET/CHI/MIN
AL Mount. - TEX/KC/MIN/Expansion (ex. MEX, IND, SLC, OKC, Omaha, etc.)
AL Pacific - SEA/OAK/LAA/Expansion (ex. VAN, POR, Riverside, LV, etc.)
NL Atlantic - NYM/PHI/MIA/WAS
NL Central - PIT/CIN/ATL/CHI
NL Mount. - MIL/STL/COL/HOU
NL Pacific - ARI/SD/LA/SF
*Division names just placeholders.
I'm a bit of a geek about expansion possibilities. I have this, and other expansion ideas in a spreadsheet that i update throughout the years specifically for this game.
Interested to see what you or others have done.
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