re-alignment

username: · Post #1 » by **username:** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:32 pm

al west has 4 teams and the nl central has 5. how about mlb moves the san diego padres in the al west and moves the houston astros to the nl west. each division will then have 5 teams.

al east
yankees
orioles
red sox
rays
blue jays

al central
white sox
twins
indians
royals
tigers

al west
padres
angles
a's
rangers
mariners

nl east
braves
marlins
phillies
mets
nationals

nl central
cardinals
brewers
cubs
reds
pirates

nl west
astros
rockies
d'backs
giants
dodgers

Post #2 » by **kg2005** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:59 pm

You have to have an even amount of teams in each league so that they can play every day. If you have 15 teams in a league, at least one team will have to have an off day every day (or for a whole series). It pretty much makes for a scheduling mess.

Post #3 » by **Chach** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:11 pm

kg2005 wrote:You have to have an even amount of teams in each league so that they can play every day. If you have 15 teams in a league, at least one team will have to have an off day every day (or for a whole series). It pretty much makes for a scheduling mess.

Thank you. We have been over this every time that re-alignment comes up. You need an even amount of teams because either you have EXTREME difficulty coming up with mutual off-days for rain-outs or simply the stagger off-days so that a series ends every single day. Either that or we have an interleague series every week and that's just silly. You want to realign to help geography, that's cool but you need even number of teams. mahalo
~Chach~

Triple M · Post #4 » by **Triple M** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:33 pm

Even though re-alignment is a flawed concept if it were to be done why not move 1 team instead of two. It would be easier to just move the Astros to the AL west than have them move to the NL west than have the padres move to the AL west.

We'retheRangers · Post #5 » by **We'retheRangers** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:42 am

If any team moves it would prolly be the Rangers. 30 games a year start at 9:30 local time. Not to mention those are some of the most important games of the season.

WEFFPIM · Post #6 » by **WEFFPIM** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:40 pm

You also have the novelty of interleague play wiped out. If both leagues had 15 teams each, you'd have one AL team and one NL team forced to play each other for every series. You have to have an even number of teams in both leagues to avoid that.