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Originally Posted by cheo25
I like 36 teams because I like the 6-team divisions. Four teams in a division are not enough, and I don't like five because of the odd number.
With the 36-team idea, you could put Milwaukee in the AL Central, move KC to the AL West and put Houston back in the NL Central. And, yes, I agree with you Houston belongs in the National League.
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Yeah, 5-6 teams per division seems like the best number. With 8 teams, mid-table teams get lost (and ugh, don't get me started on the 10-team, one-big-division format of the 60s) and even though I grew up with the 7-team divisions of the American League that strikes me as a little too big nowadays as well. On the flip side, the AL West was a 4 team division for years and it just seemed like in years where one team was rebuilding it was in reality a 2 team race at best. Obviously that can happen with a 5 team division too but 20% more teams is a weirdly large difference IME.
I'm all for moving Houston, preferably to a different league altogether. Do you have the *** set up? I kid and also I mean in Minecraft.
With the expansion, I don't know, I feel like the South is still a largely untapped market: if MLB suddenly decided to do a big expansion you could definitely put teams in both Nashville/Memphis and Charlotte (this is a world where other sports owners have poisoned the city in question of course) and maybe even New Orleans. I feel like Portland is too close to Seattle, although both cities have grown a lot over the past decade; I might add a team in Vancouver, BC instead though. Also of course Montreal. Indianapolis is just not that big of a metro area; the city itself looks large on paper because it sucked up a bunch of its suburbs but I don't think it'd compete on a ML level. I'd probably think towards adding teams in Austin or Buffalo or even Columbus or Louisville before going there.