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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2351289, member: 289"]
[URL="https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/10/19/major-league-baseball-expansion-proposal-realignment?xid=nl_siextra&utm_source=si.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=si-extra&utm_content=2017102012PM"]Mapping out a 32-team league should MLB pursue expansion[/URL]

I'm all in favor it.

I hate:
1) Wild card teams winning the world series after a 162 game season 
2) Small divisions that put still other mediocre teams in the playoffs
3) The dearth of pennant races, which seeds August and September to football
4) Cold weather baseball.

Go to four 8 teams divisions  and have just their champions play in the playoffs. Baseball thrived with two 8 teams leagues with just their champions going into the World Series for 60 years. You could do the "radical realignment" thing described in the article or you could simply go back to East-West Divisions in the American and naitonal leagues, which also worked well for years. You wouldn't have to cut the schedule to 156 games, (and thus throw the records off). 14 games against 7 divisional rivals and 8 games vs. another division would be fine. (That's 162 game: two four game series and two three game series vs divisional rivals and two 4 game series with each team in the other division.) if you had radical realignment you could switch off the divisions each year. You're back two two series each October, ending in mid-October.  from 1901-60 every team in the World Series was at least 20 games over .500 and they'd all won an 8 team league to get there. We'd have that back. And the weather would still be warm.
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