Wild Baseball Re-Allignment Idea

[cmlfactor]

Am extremely bored this morning...so I went ahead and made up my proposition for an extremely wild geographic-based re-allignment. The big stinker is the Western League Mid-West Division but quite a few of the others could be quite intriguing.

EASTERN LEAGUE
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NORTHEAST DIVISION
New York Yankees
New York Mets
Boston Red Sox
Washington Nationals
Baltimore Orioles

MID-ATLANTIC DIVISION
Pittsburgh Pirates
Cincinatti Reds
Philadelphia Phillies
Toronto Blue Jays
Cleveland Indians

SOUTHEAST DIVISION
Miami Marlins
Tampa Bay Rays
Atlanta Braves
St. Louis Cardinals
Kansas City Royals

********************

WESTERN LEAGUE
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GREAT LAKES DIVISION
Detroit Tigers
Minnesota Twins
Chicago White Sox
Chicago Cubs
Milwaukee Brewers

MID-WEST DIVISION
Arizona Diamondbacks
Texas Rangers
Houston Astros
Colorado Rockies
Seattle Mariners

MOUNTAIN DIVSION
Oakland Athletics
LA Angels
LA Dodgers
San Fransisco Giants
San Diego Padres

 

[mjsb2]

DH or no DH?

 

[cmlfactor]

DH both leagues...no-one pays good money to watch pitchers bat...

 

[cmlfactor]

Actually, a thought I just had. The DH could be optional. If you have a good hitting pitcher, by all means plug him into the lineup. I can't imagine many managers would do that, though.

 

[grandy]

Remember, it's best to have an even number of teams in each league unless you do away with a small window of interleague play and just make it over the whole season.

If I were to do it, it would be...

EASTERN

NORTH DIVISION
Detroit
NY Yankees
NY Mets
Boston
Toronto

MID-ATLANTIC DIVISION
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Baltimore
Washington
Cincinnati

SOUTH DIVISION
Houston
Texas
Atlanta
Florida
Tampa Bay


WESTERN

MIDWEST DIVISION
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Chicago White Sox
Chicago Cubs
KC

SOUTHWEST DIVISION
LA Dodgers
LA Angels
Arizona
San Diego

NORTHWEST DIVISION
Minnesota
Seattle
San Francisco
Oakland
Colorado

 

[cmlfactor]

You have 16 in the East and 14 in the West.

 

[grandy]

You have 16 in the East and 14 in the West.

That's so all teams can play a series within their league each week, unless there's one interleague series every series.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I like the idea of the Red Sox, Yanks and Mets being in the same division.

 

[Monster]

Actually, a thought I just had. The DH could be optional. If you have a good hitting pitcher, by all means plug him into the lineup. I can't imagine many managers would do that, though.

If i remember correctly DH is already optional. I'm pretty sure you can insert your pitcher into the DH slot if you want to. Teams just don't do it. I could be wrong though.

 

[packersfantheo]

Monster [/color]]

Actually, a thought I just had. The DH could be optional. If you have a good hitting pitcher, by all means plug him into the lineup. I can't imagine many managers would do that, though.

If i remember correctly DH is already optional. I'm pretty sure you can insert your pitcher into the DH slot if you want to. Teams just don't do it. I could be wrong though.

I don't see why anyone would prevent a manager from essentially making their pitcher the DH.

And I don't give a shit about the interleague play thing, one division having 6 and one having four is statistically not fair to the teams in the division with 6.

And whoever put the Tigers in with the Yankees and Sox is insane. Fuck that.

 

[grandy]

Monster [/color]]

If i remember correctly DH is already optional. I'm pretty sure you can insert your pitcher into the DH slot if you want to. Teams just don't do it. I could be wrong though.

I don't see why anyone would prevent a manager from essentially making their pitcher the DH.

And I don't give a shit about the interleague play thing, one division having 6 and one having four is statistically not fair to the teams in the division with 6.

And whoever put the Tigers in with the Yankees and Sox is insane. Fuck that.

I guess you must hate the current league setups then.

Also, I'd love to see the Tigers play the Yankees and Red Sox. Beats the hell out of playing the garbage in the central every year.

 

[ihatebadenglish]

We were so close in 2001 to having four 7 team divisions. A shame.

 

[kingofdetroit57]

Am extremely bored this morning...so I went ahead and made up my proposition for an extremely wild geographic-based re-allignment. The big stinker is the Western League Mid-West Division but quite a few of the others could be quite intriguing.

EASTERN LEAGUE
--------------

NORTHEAST DIVISION
New York Yankees
New York Mets
Boston Red Sox
Washington Nationals
Baltimore Orioles

MID-ATLANTIC DIVISION
Pittsburgh Pirates
Cincinatti Reds
Philadelphia Phillies
Toronto Blue Jays
Cleveland Indians

SOUTHEAST DIVISION
Miami Marlins
Tampa Bay Rays
Atlanta Braves
St. Louis Cardinals
Kansas City Royals

********************

WESTERN LEAGUE
--------------

GREAT LAKES DIVISION
Detroit Tigers
Minnesota Twins
Chicago White Sox
Chicago Cubs
Milwaukee Brewers

MID-WEST DIVISION
Arizona Diamondbacks
Texas Rangers
Houston Astros
Colorado Rockies
Seattle Mariners

MOUNTAIN DIVSION
Oakland Athletics
LA Angels
LA Dodgers
San Fransisco Giants
San Diego Padres

I'd love this.

 

[grandy]

The problem with 15 and 15 is you're going to have 1 team in each league sitting there twiddling their thumbs for 3-4 days at a time every so often if there's no interleague play.

 

[ihatebadenglish]

The problem with 15 and 15 is you're going to have 1 team in each league sitting there twiddling their thumbs for 3-4 days at a time every so often if there's no interleague play.

It is pretty apparent that MLB is heading down the road of interleague all season long. In time the DH will be in the NL

 

[batcave76]

The problem with 15 and 15 is you're going to have 1 team in each league sitting there twiddling their thumbs for 3-4 days at a time every so often if there's no interleague play.

It is pretty apparent that MLB is heading down the road of interleague all season long. In time the DH will be in the NL

Baseball purists love having the pitcher bat. It adds to the strategy. For me, there's nothing worse than seeing a pitcher flail at the ball. The DH rule was gold.

 

[Thumb]

I'm against and re-alignment that puts Yankees-Mets, ChiSox-Cubs, Giants-A's, Phillies-Pirates, Cards-Royals, Dodgers-Angels, etc in the same divisions.

Personally, I don't see baseball as something that constantly needs to be fixed, if they ever add more teams to the playoffs, they may ruin the game for good.

 

[ihatebadenglish]

Baseball purists love having the pitcher bat. It adds to the strategy. For me, there's nothing worse than seeing a pitcher flail at the ball. The DH rule was gold.

Baseball has evolved to the point where having the pitcher bat is gimmicky. The only other league to not have the DH full time is the Japan Central League. Even in the minors, the DH is used unless there are two NL affiliates playing in the upper levels.

When push comes to shove about the issue, the DH will be in both leagues. The owners and players would both rather have the DH in both leagues than have it be gone in both leagues.

With the talk of evening the leagues at 15 and having interleague all year, the leagues are going to have to pick a rule and stick with it.

 

[Rebbiv]

I firmly believe teams that existed prior to 1969 should stay in the leagues they were in at that time.

MIL started as the Seatle Pilots (AL) in 1969, changed to the Brewers in 1970. The switched from the AL to the NL in 1994.

I would love to have a AL division based on some of the original AL teams:

BAL
BOS
DET
CLE
NYY

I would rather have 18 games versus NYY or BOS, than KCR.

 

[mjsb2]

Monster [/color]]

If i remember correctly DH is already optional. I'm pretty sure you can insert your pitcher into the DH slot if you want to. Teams just don't do it. I could be wrong though.

I don't see why anyone would prevent a manager from essentially making their pitcher the DH.

And I don't give a shit about the interleague play thing, one division having 6 and one having four is statistically not fair to the teams in the division with 6.

And whoever put the Tigers in with the Yankees and Sox is insane. Fuck that.

It is also statistically unfair to have teams play imbalanced schedule.

The best situation would be 15 teams in each league, with each team playing each other an equal amount, no divisions, and the top 4 make the playoffs.