October 16, 200619 yr Still amazing to see some of the numbers guys were putting up that year, especially Frank Thomas, Matt Williams and Tony Gwynn and how about the Expos?...
October 17, 200619 yr Pardon my ignorance, but I've only been a baseball fan for a few years, can someone please explain how/why the Brewers went from the AL to the NL?
October 17, 200619 yr Realignment when the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays came in. The D-Rays went into the AL East, moving Detroit over to the AL Central. Arizona was assigned to the NL West. Then for some reason, Milwaukee was moved to the NL Central. It would have made more sense to move the Royals to the AL West, especially with Texas already there, thus nixing the distance argument and thus establishing balance among all the divisions and leagues. Instead, the AL has 14 teams, while the NL has 16 teams. Additionally, the AL West has only 4 teams, while the NL Central has a staggering 6 teams.
October 17, 200619 yr I figured it'd just have to do with the new teams. Seems odd though, forcing Milwaukee to go to the NL... it's a big change in philosophy in terms of game managing, pitchers having to hit, no DH, etc... seems a bit unfair to do that to a team all of a sudden.
October 17, 200619 yr MLB (or rather the MLB through the AL) gave first chance to the Royals to move to the NL with the Brewers to move if KC refused. Selig wanted radical realignment that would have provided geographic divisions, many owners wanted only a scaled back version that kept the wild card and a moderate amount of interleague contests. Thus a compromise was reached, keeping with the 3-division and wild card format and designated periods of interleague play. KC's new owner, Glass declined the invitation to join the NL despite previously supporting Selig's radical realignment. So the Brewers, then supposedly held in trust by Selig's own daughter, were moved to the NL.
October 17, 200619 yr Realignment when the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays came in. The D-Rays went into the AL East, moving Detroit over to the AL Central. Arizona was assigned to the NL West. Then for some reason, Milwaukee was moved to the NL Central. It would have made more sense to move the Royals to the AL West, especially with Texas already there, thus nixing the distance argument and thus establishing balance among all the divisions and leagues. Instead, the AL has 14 teams, while the NL has 16 teams. Additionally, the AL West has only 4 teams, while the NL Central has a staggering 6 teams. You do understand that having an odd number of teams in both leagues would have caused a huge scheduling problem, right? Think about it. That's why Milwaukee was moved to the NL.
October 17, 200619 yr Realignment when the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays came in. The D-Rays went into the AL East, moving Detroit over to the AL Central. Arizona was assigned to the NL West. Then for some reason, Milwaukee was moved to the NL Central. It would have made more sense to move the Royals to the AL West, especially with Texas already there, thus nixing the distance argument and thus establishing balance among all the divisions and leagues. Instead, the AL has 14 teams, while the NL has 16 teams. Additionally, the AL West has only 4 teams, while the NL Central has a staggering 6 teams. You do understand that having an odd number of teams in both leagues would have caused a huge scheduling problem, right? Think about it. That's why Milwaukee was moved to the NL. Yep, that wouldve meant an Interleague game nearly every night, and (like rferry said) owners only wanted moderate amounts of interleague :thumbup
October 18, 200619 yr The list could go on of all that was lost that year, the biggest what could have been for me is if the Marlins had drafted Nomar instead of Josh Booty.
October 18, 200619 yr Author The list could go on of all that was lost that year, the biggest what could have been for me is if the Marlins had drafted Nomar instead of Josh Booty. thats kind of a different thing than what this thread is all about but yea, that woulda been nice
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