It’s one of those discussion points that just won’t go away. Major League Baseball is, once again, talking about expansion. Specifically, Jim Bowden of The Athletic brought up a recent conversation with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred on that topic, then dove into a proposal for how the leagues and divisions would realign to fit the two new franchises.
...we’ll get to those in a bit.
Expansion itself has been on baseball’s mind for time immemorial, and is not exclusively a Manfred creation. MLB added two new teams under former commissioner Bud Selig, and two more just before he took the job, bringing us to the current total of 30 franchises.