With 2024 (the ends of A's lease) and 2027 (the ends of Rays lease) coming closer, so are the 32 teams expansion. What do you think with these 5 scenarios?

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Relocation without expansion is incredibly easy. A’s to Vegas, they stay in the same division. Rays to Montreal, they stay in the same division. Travel actually improves overall, and you get a natural geographic rival within the AL East with Toronto and Montreal which would be awesome. Those 2 cities hate each other due to their hockey rivalry.

The scheduling will be 156 games, with details as follows:

• For the "2 Leagues, 4 Divisions each" scenario, each team will play 12 games with the team from their division (12 x 3 = 36 in totals), 6 games with the team from the other divisions but still within their league (6 x 12 = 72 in totals), and 3 games with the team from the other league with alternating years home-and-home series (3 x 16 = 48 in totals).
• For the "No League" and "2 Leagues, 2 Divisions each" scenario, each team will play 12 games with the team from their division (12 x 7 = 84 in totals) and 3 games with the team from other divisions with alternating years home-and-home series, interleague or not (3 x 24 = 72 in totals).

For the postseason the format will be as follows:

• For the "2 Leagues, 4 Divisions each" scenario, the Division winners from each league will be seeded 1st to 4th, with seed 1st and 2nd get a bye to Division Series. Then the best 2 teams from the rest of the league will be seeded 5th and 6th. The 3rd seed will choose their opponent in the Wild Card Series, and the 1st seed will choose the Wild Card pairings to be their opponent at Division Series. Wild Card Series and Division Series are Bo5, while Championship Series and World Series are Bo7.
• For the "2 Leagues, 2 Divisions each" scenario, the Division winners from each league will be seeded 1st and 2nd and get a bye to Division Series. Then the best 4 teams from the rest of the league will be seeded 3rd to 6th. The remaining will be the same as the "2 Leagues, 4 Division each" scenario.
• For the "No League" scenario, the Division winners will be seeded 1st to 4th, with the 1st and 4th seed will meet in Semifinals. Then the best 8 remaining teams will be seeded 5th to 12th. The 5th through 7th seed will choose their opponent in the Wild Card Series, with the 5th seed getting priority, and the 1st through the 3rd seed will choose the Wild Card pairings to be their opponent at Quarter Finals, with the 1st seed getting priority. Wild Card Series and Quarter Finals are Bo5, while Semifinals and World Series are Bo7.

Whatever gets my Astros back to the Senior Circuit