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Things don't often change without some impetus. There isn't incentive for MLB to change the division lineup until it becomes a problem. The worst thing about a 4 team division is that it increases the chances of having a poor team be a winner, and that was almost the case in 1994. Until there is a year where a 3rd team in the NL Central is out of the playoffs while having a significantly better record than the AL West winner, there won't be much support for changing something that isn't perceived as being broken.
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One advantage to evening the size of the divisions is that it's probably the easiest way to increase each team's chances of making the playoffs without changing player contracts or a salary cap.

Moving a team from the NL to the AL would only increase each NL team's chance of making the playoffs. Each AL team would have another team to compete with, lowering each of their chances of making it to the playoffs.

 

But the one thing you can say about it, is that it would even out everyone's chances of making the playoffs...well everyone not in the AL East.

Remember what Yoda said:

 

"Cubs lead to Cardinals. Cardinals lead to dislike. Dislike leads to hate. Hate leads to constipation."

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The real obvious solution would be expansion by 2 teams and shifting to an NFL 4 4-team divisions in each league. I am not in any way advocating this as a solution but just for fun I looked at some of the largest cities without teams as a way to see who may get a team if they wanted one. Some of the choices:

 

San Antonio

San Jose

Portland

Las Vegas

Austin

Columbus Ohio

Charlotte

Jacksonville

Indianapolis

Nashville

 

Austin and Columbus are college towns and probably wouldn't support a team. San Jose is big but you wonder if it would cut too much into San Francisco and Oakland's fan base. Jacksonville, while the biggest of all the Florida cities, might have the same issue as other Florida cities. The advantage to Jacksonville, though, is that unlike Miami and Tampa, Jacksonville only has one other pro sports team to compete with whereas Miami has football, basketball, and hockey and Tampa has football and hockey. Las Vegas....obvious issues there but would MLB be the first to tap that market? Indianapolis....maybe. Nashville....doubtful. Charlotte would be good but my selfish opinion thinks we already have too many teams in the south/southeast and need more teams out west. To me, if any two cities should get a team, they should be Portland and San Antonio. San Antonio is a huge market and have nice little rivalries with either the Rangers or with the Astros and Diamond Backs. Portland, which tried to get the Expos, only has one other major sports team and would form a very natural rivalry with Seattle.

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With 4 team divisions I would venture a guess that you would have
a .500 or even under .500 team making the playoffs almost every year.


I'm sure you would every now and then but I wouldn't particularly care. You could expand the playoffs to 6 and have maybe a best of 3 first round, followed by best of 5 and best of 7. You'd probably have to shorten the season to 154 to make up for this as well. Or you could just keep it at 4 teams. I've always believed if you can't win your own division then you really complain too much if you don't make the playoffs.
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People complained before divisional playoffs, interleague play, and the wild card, but I believe all those have been beneficial to the game of baseball. "Tradition" shouldn't stand in the way of innovation and fairness. When you have only one division with six teams, it's just patently unfair and unjustifiable. No realistic or satisfactory reasoning for it has ever been given. Bud Selig probably doesn't want to fix it because he does not want to give the appearance of trying to help the Brewers (which has been accused of doing in the past by moving them to the NL in the first place).
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The difference between baseball and other sports regarding interleague play is that interleague is newer, and still not liked among some. While of course all games count the same, there would be resistance among traditional fans to have interleague games be perceived as deciding games.
Not tomention that the leagues have different rules.
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