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MLB 2.0: Reimagining baseball -- Move the Oakland A's to San Jose and the Tampa Bay Rays to Montreal

Editor's note: In the days leading up to Jan. 25, Rob Manfred's one-year anniversary as MLB commissioner, we asked our writers to offer one change or innovation they would make to improve baseball if the sport started over today.

The change: Baseball needs to figure out where the Oakland Athletics and the Tampa Bay Rays should be playing baseball. This isn't just about doing something about O.co Coliseum and Tropicana Field, two inadequate venues that aren't coming close to filling up with fans. It's about sorting out whether those teams should be serving those markets, or if baseball would be better off with one or both playing somewhere else.