We’re due for a change in MLB.
Not the Rob Manfred BS, but changes to the league writ large. Expanding to 32 teams and reducing the schedule to 154 games have been discussed widely and loudly in recent months, and I think they could work and be good for the game.
But how would it work? I’m glad you asked.
I’ll start with expansion. If you’re wondering why baseball would expand, well, Chris Mitchell wrote it best in the Hardball Times Annual 2018: “Baseball averaged one multi-team expansion every 6.