The Astros were the last team to change leagues when MLB moved the franchise to the American League West to balance out the 30 teams in MLB. With the Astros’ move to the AL West, each division had five teams, and it sparked a new, consistent rivalry with the Texas Rangers that wasn’t dependent on Interleague scheduling.

That’s news when the commissioner says it publicly, but impending realignment has not been a closely guarded secret. Expanding to 32 clubs would necessitate some reshuffling, the most likely of which would be moving to eight divisions of four teams apiece.

During the Little League Classic between the New York Mets and Seattle Mariners on ESPN, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred hinted at a big change.

Alvarez, who last played for Houston on May 2, recorded two hits and stole a base during a rehab start at Double-A Corpus Christi. He is not expected to play Wednesday, according to Astros manager Joe Espada, and Alvarez could rejoin Houston as early as this weekend's series against the Baltimore Orioles.

The gut instinct is repulsion, partly from the source of this proposal and his casual indifference to the tradition of a game.

At this point in the Major League Baseball season, no one dares to argue who the best pitcher in the circuit is. Although Paul Skenes, Zack Wheeler, Garrett Crochet or Christopher

The New York Yankees crushed a franchise record-tying nine home runs in a dominant 13-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday. The players had to wait for almost two hours as rain and lightning delayed the game,

The Toronto Blue Jays have climbed inside the Top 5 of the latest power rankings by MLB insider, Will Leitch. He placed the Jays at No. 3, the highest American League team, in his rankings earlier this week. Toronto trails the No. 1 Milwaukee Brewers and last year's world champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers.

In 2023, his breakout season in the minors, Red Sox outfielder Roman Anthony knew his overall numbers were obscuring his struggles against left-handed pitching. Anthony, a left-handed hitter, was named Boston’s minor league hitter of the year while batting .219 against lefties.

Eight divisions with four teams each, which is a huge shift from today's six divisions with five teams. The American League gets condensed (confined to the heavily populated East Coast out to the Great Lakes region), while the National League stretches out for far more square mileage.