{"id":149569,"date":"2018-07-18T15:23:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=149569"},"modified":"2018-07-18T16:02:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:02:51","slug":"possible-mlb-future-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=149569","title":{"rendered":"Possible Major League Baseball future expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p><span class=\"node-byline-author\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5018\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MLB-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MLB-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MLB-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MLB-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MLB.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamestownsun.com\/users\/field-level-media\">Field Level Media<\/a><\/span>)\u00a0\u00a0 Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said Major League Baseball is considering expansion from 30 to 32 teams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>Manfred even named some prospective markets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>&#8220;We have a real list of cities that I think are not only interested in having baseball, but are viable in terms of baseball &#8212; places like Portland, Las Vegas, Charlotte, Nashville in the United States, certainly Montreal, maybe Vancouver, in Canada,&#8221; Manfred said, according to the Nashville Business Journal. &#8220;We think there&#8217;s places in Mexico we could go over the long haul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 32-team field would make for easier scheduling and allow MLB to realign to eight four-team divisions. It also would change the postseason configuration, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Field Level Media)\u00a0\u00a0 Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said Major League Baseball is considering expansion from 30 to 32 teams. Manfred even named some prospective markets. &#8220;We have a real list of cities that I think are not only interested in having baseball, but are viable in terms of baseball &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149577,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149569\/revisions\/149577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}