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 Recently, whispers of division relocation in baseball have become a more out loud conversation. Some examples I've seen have suggested major shifts for teams or the altogether destruction of the AL and NL as we know it. Previous shifts in the baseball landscape haven't been so ambitious, but the geographical relocation proposed by some would make the biggest change since 1994, and in tandem with expansion to 32 teams (which would be a big monkey wrench to my 30 in 30 team plans every year) have some people even throwing around shifting teams to a different league (or without the clear AL/NL look, put some teams in a division with three other teams from the other league). The closest reference we have to such a situation, expansion coupled with relocation, was 1998 when baseball added the Devil Rays and Diamondbacks while shifting the Brewers from the AL to the NL to maintain even numbers in both leagues...because back then baseball didn't have year long interleague play. W...