Sounds like baseball is talking about realignment.  Specifically, they want to even out the leagues at fifteen teams apiece, and add an additional wild card to each league.  Both of these seem like bad ideas – with fifteen teams in each league, one team is *always* off on a given night, unless interleague play is spread throughout the season instead of in isolated chunks like it is now.  For people unaware of how baseball scheduling works, Mondays and Thursdays are typically the only off days for a club; on the other five days you can except all thirty teams to be in action.  Realignment would really screw this up.

Adding a wild card team also seems like a bad idea.  If it’s a one game playoff, it’s unlikely to be generate any more excitement than any recent one game playoffs have, so it’s hardly worth codifying as part of the playoff system.  If it’s best of three or best of five, you have a situation where the non-wild card playoff teams sit around a wait to play the winner, which is fine in football, but not so much in baseball.  You also guarantee that the World Series is played in November, which has already happened a few times but is something that most fans would probably prefer to avoid.

If you’re going to realign, you might as well do it right, though.  Six divisions of five, based geographically.  Here you go:

PACIFIC DIVISION

Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Oakland

SOUTHWEST DIVISION

Colorado
Arizona
Texas
Houston
San Diego

MIDWEST DIVISION

Minnesota
Kansas City
St. Louis
Chicago
Chicago

NORTHEAST DIVISION

Boston
New York
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh

CENTRAL DIVISION

Detroit
Toronto
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Cleveland

ATLANTIC DIVISION

Washington
Baltimore
Atlanta
Florida
Tampa Bay

Will this happen? Not a chance. But if you’re going to screw up everyone’s travel plans by putting odd teams in each league, you might as well cut down on their travel time.