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Message: [QUOTE="donniesyracuse, post: 2636237, member: 101"] From an old [URL='https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/10/19/major-league-baseball-expansion-proposal-realignment'][I]SI [/I]article[/URL]: "...In 2016, Baseball Savant calculated that the Mariners log roughly twice as many air miles as the Cubs (47,704 to 24,271), and all five AL West teams ranking among the top seven in mileage traveled. A study published in 2017, covering 20 years of data (1992–2011), showed that teams crossing two or three time zones without having the proper time to adjust their sleep schedules performed worse than average, and that teams traveling east were at a greater disadvantage, with the Washington Post's Ben Guarino concluding that upon returning home, 'The effects are sufficiently large to erase the home field advantage.'" I think Portland gets a team. [/QUOTE]