With the recent realignment talk in the MLB, I think there are two logical decisions they can make with the divisional alignment: Option 1 Have 15/15 alignment between AL and NL with three divisions each (schedule will be mostly intraleague with more interleague games). AL East: Baltimore, Boston, New York, Tampa Bay, Toronto Central: Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minnesota. (If anyone should go to the AL, it's Milwaukee b/c they were there originally.) West: Kansas City, Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle, Texas (similar to the old AFC West) NL East: Atlanta, Florida, New York, Philadelphia, Washington Central: Chicago, Cincinnati, Houston, Pittsburgh, Saint Louis. West: Same as current Or Option 2 Still 15/15 between AL/NL but each league has one 7-team and 8-team division each. AL East: Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, New York, Tampa Bay, Toronto (8) West: Kansas City, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Oakland, Seattle, Texas (7) NL East: Atlanta, Chicago, Cincinnati, Florida, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington (8) West: Arizona, Colorado, Houston, Los Angeles, Saint Louis, San Diego, San Francisco (7) In addition, the 5-team playoff is a pretty dumb idea (uneven, if anything). I think MLB should either stick with 4 teams or go to 6 teams. With a 6-team playoff: a. Under three division alignment, the 3 division champions plus 3 wild card cards (by record) get to the playoffs. The top two division champions would get byes which will not only make it important to win your division but also to have a better season record hopefully resulting in more/better competition and motivation ("EQUALING RATINGS!!!") or b. Under two division alignment, the 2 division champs would get byes and the other seeds would be determined by record.