MLB Season Going To Be Shortened?

As baseball keeps talking about ways to stage a season of some kind, the latest possibility involves splitting the season between Arizona and Florida and realigning the 30 teams into new leagues and divisions.

According to a report from USA Today’s Bob Nightengale, the American League and National League would be replaced by the Cactus League and Grapefruit League, with teams sorted geographically by the location of their spring training facilities.

Nightengale wrote that teams could play 12 games against each divisional opponent and six games against the other 10 teams in their league, creating a 108-game regular-season schedule, with the winner of the Cactus League facing off against the winner of the Grapefruit League in the World Series in November.

Other differences in the plan to split the season between Arizona and Florida include an odd number of teams in each league, forcing daily doubleheaders to make sure every team played every day, and all 30 teams would likely use the designated hitter.