USA Today’s Bob Nightengale is reporting that Major League Baseball is considering radical realignment for the 2020 season in order to facilitate playing games amid the coronavirus pandemic. The proposed realignment would put the Cincinnati Reds into the toughest division in baseball; the Cactus League West.
The proposed realignment, according to Nightengale, is based on the premise that the 15 teams that typically spend spring training in Florida and the 15 teams that spend spring training in Arizona would form two new leagues for this season. With their spring training held annually in Goodyear, Arizona, the Reds would become part of the Cactus League according to this proposal.