I want to see if ANYONE can do this?

Question

make correct unbiased, unfavoring, and FAIR division for the mlb, i bet you you cant, i will comment on peoples, and i hope others comment on each other, ALSO-give thumbs up, and thumbs down, best perecentage of them gets best answer, and please have a platform, with where teams play and stuff to put in divisions

thanks-MR. baseball

and if you say leave it the same, you will not get thumbs up, you will get thumbs down, please people do that for me, dont give me reasons why either, just dont answer it!

ONLY DIVISIONS, i dont want other answers, i want divisions, i personally dont want them changed, but i would like to see if they were changed, what they would be

the people like Sportzfan, and shawn c are answering this question correctly!

Answer 1

I would split it geographically, to make it easier for fan travel. Take the 13 teams west of the Mississippi and add Milwaukee and expansion teams in Vegas and Portland. By dividing 30 teams evenly there would need to be an interleague game every day, so I added teams.

Then have four divisions east and west. No wild card. No interleague. There would never be a “subway series”. But fans will be able to see their teams in person more often. I didn’t want to split Washington and Baltimore or Pittsburgh and Philadelphia so I moved Atlanta north. They are still in the same league just a different division from their geographical neighbors.

SW
LAD
LAA
Vegas
SD

NW
Seattle
SF
Oak
Portland

Western
Ari
Col.
Hou
Tex.

Mid-west
Milwaukee
KC
StL.
Minn.

S. Great Lakes
ChiSox
ChiCubs
Cin.
Cleve.

East Great Lakes
Pitt
Det
Toronto
Philadelphia

Southeast
Wash
Bal.
TB
Fla.

Northeast
NYY
NYM
Bos
Atl.

Answer 2

Baseball made $6Billion this season, so I think there's room for a couple of expansion teams. Eliminate interleague play and the stupid wildcard and bring back a more balanced schedule:

AL East: Yanks, Red Sox, Jays, Tigers
AL South: Rays, Orioles, Royals, [Charlotte or Raleigh/Durham]
AL Central: Indians, White Sox, Twins, Rangers
AL West: Angels, Mariners, A's, [Vegas or Portland]

NL East: Mets, Phillies, Pirates, Reds
NL South: Marlins, Braves, Cubs, Nationals
NL Central: D-backs, Brewers, Cardinals, Astros
NL West: Rockies, Padres, Dodgers, Giants

Everybody pretty much shares a division with teams at least in the same time zone, unlike the present Rangers. You keep the 162 game schedule, and you play your own division 14 games and the others in your league 10 each.

Alternately, move the D-Backs to the AL West and the Cubs to the NL Central and put an expansion team in the NL South (Memphis? Chattanooga?)

Answer 3

First move the TB Rays to Las Vegas. This has to be done or you will have a team that plays alot of games way outside their time zone.

Move the Brewers back to the AL and put them in the ALE slot vacated by the Rays. The Vegas team will play in the ALW.

This gives you six divsions of five teams.

ALE
Yankees
Red Sox
Blue Jays
Orioles
BREWERS

ALC
Indians
Twins
Royals
White Sox
Tigers

ALW
Angels
A's
Mariners
Rangers
VEGAS team

NLE
Mets
Braves
Phillies
Nationals
Marlins

NLC
Reds
Cubs
Pirates
Cardinals
Astros

NLW
Diamondbacks
Rockies
Padres
Dodgers
Giants

Lose the natural interleague rivals and have the teams rotate opponents each year. For instance the NLC would play all teams in the ALW one year, the ALC the next and the ALE the third..then repeat. This balances the schedules at least at the divisional level.

Add a second wildcard team, and then have a one game winner takes all playoff between these two teams. Winner goes on to play the team with leagues best record. Team with the best record then gets to pick their first round opponent.

Answer 4

Shawn C. you want an interleague game every series? u have 15 teams in each division so either one team plays interleague or has a series off.

A.L East
NYY,Bos,Balt,Tor,TB
A.L Cent
Clev Det Minn CH.Sox KC Brewers (get back to the better league)
A.L West
LAA Sea Oak Vegas (from Florida) Texas

NL East
Phil NyM braves Nats
NL Central
Cubs Cards stros Reds Pirates
NL West
zona SD LAD SF Rockies

Only a few changes for me.

Answer 5

I'm in favor of instant replay - BUT only for home runs (fair or foul, over the wall, fan interference.)

Also, eliminate the home field advantage being decided by the All-Star game - that's nonsense. If the teams played head-to-head during the year, the team with the best record should get home field. If not, then w/e had the best record against common opponents should get the advantage.


EDIT: Ooops, I misread the question, thought you meant changes in general. Give me a few and I'll make divisions.

$C-Note$ - you make a lot of errors in your answers. That's why I give your answers thumbs down sometimes, I never give anyone a thumbs down just based on their ID, or anything other than an error in their answer. Nice try though.

BTW, your arrogance and sense of self-importance is why a lot of people here give you thumbs down. Most people that claim to be geniuses or "smart" are covering up for their lack of intelligence.
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Answer 6

No. I won't.

Why?

Why should the MLB change divisions. It's not their fault that team owners don't want to spend a lot to get big stars, hoping one day they'll just wake up and have a great team. It's not their fault that teams make poor draft choices. It's not their fault owners pocket the money instead of spending money on their team.

They shouldn't change divisions or leagues. They should just realize that some owners only own a team to make money, not to win a World Series by spending the big bucks. So don't change divisions, tell owners that they need to get competitive and stop hoarding their money

BTW-There are teams with at least one or two great players. If they just built a team around them, you'd have competitive baseball. If they just filled in the holes, instead of just say,''Aw, hell with that,'' you'd have competitive baseball.

Answer 7

AL East
Yankees
Mets
Phillies
Nationals
Devilrays

AL Central
White Sox
Tigers
Brewers
Reds
Indians

AL West
Angels
Mariners
Rangers
Rockies

NL East
Red Sox
Orioles
Braves
BlueJays
Marlins

NL Central
Cubs
Cardinals
Astros
Twins
Royals
Pirates

NL West
Dodgers
Giants
Athletics
Padres
Diamondbacks

This takes into account salary and also keeps it so there isn't too much travel. It is the most fair to do it by salary because this is the best indicator of how a team should do

Answer 8

AL Gold
NY Yankees
Boston
LA Angels
Chicago WS
Seattle

AL Silver
Detroit
Baltimore
Toronto
Oakland
Minnesota

AL Bronze
Texas
Kansas City
Cleveland
Tampa Bay

NL Gold
NY Mets
LA Dodgers
Chicago Cubs
St. Louis
San Francisco
Philadelphia

NL Silver
Houston
Atlanta
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
San Diego

NL Bronze
Colorado
Arizona
Pittsburgh
Washington
Florida

Based on team salaries. Yeah, this makes for more travel, but is it any harder for Boston to travel to Tampa Bay as the divisions are now?

Answer 9

first of all... this cannot be done without first enforcing a salary cap in the MLB... otherwise the Sox and Yanks will be in top every year. But Without doing that


AL EAST
Red Sox
Yankees
NY Mets
Phillies
Cleveland

AL Central
Devil Rays
Royals
Blue Jays
Orioles
Chicago White Sox

AL West

LA Angels
Seattle
Oakland
Texas

NL East

Atlanta
Washington
Florida
Detroit
Minnesota

NL Central

Chicago
Milwakee
St. Louis
Houston
Cincinatti
Pittsburg

NL West

Arizona
Colorado
San Diego
Los Angeles Dodgers
San Francisco


By moving the better teams to the same division... and the not as good teams to the same division... each team will be able to be competitive for a playoff spot. For instance, there is no way the Devil Rays will never make the playoffs in the current AL East, however moving them to a division with teams like the Royals.. they have a much better chance of making the playoffs. This will draw fans to the worser teams, and ultimately make baseball better.

Answer 10

First I would even out into even divisions of five and break up the big teams who dominate devisions to make it fair to everyone and every team would play at least one series against every team
AL East
Baltimore
Boston
Toronto
Mets
Phillies

AL Central
Royals
Indians
Pirates
White Sox
Brewers

AL West
Angles
Mariners
Padres
Giants
D Backs

NL East
Yankees
D Rays
Marlins
Nationals
Braves

NL Central
Cubs
Tigers
Twins
Reds
Cardinals

NL West
Astros
Rockies
Rangers
As
Dodgers