Word got out the other day that Major League Baseball's "special committee for onfield matters" has discussed a "radical floating realignment" idea.
While I believe that competitive imbalance issues in baseball are widely overstated (more on that later), I understand the need for new, revolutionary ideas.
One idea struck me as I read the story: Why do we need divisions, anyway?
Why not just eliminate the division model altogether?
It would be much easier than figuring out which team is in which division year in and year out
It would be much easier to ensure that each team in each league plays the same schedule—or at least a much more similar schedule than what we see now. At the end of the season, the top four teams in each league would make the pl ...
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