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I wonder how often this system would produce a better chance for a cellar dweller than the existing.
Currently the A's are 8 games out in the AL West (ugh) and 10 games out of the wild card. Under the system above the A's are 8 games out of 5th place. So it's a wash.
Whereas Toronto is currently 7.5 games back in the AL East, 5.5 games out of the Wild Card and only 3.5 games out of 5th place in the AL so it would somewhat improve their hopes.
Anyway, if they kept it a 14-16 split so that there was no need to increase interleague I guess I'd support it (and no, that wouldn't be entirely fair to NL teams since they'd have more competition, but that's true now it is just that the penalty isn't split evenly through the league.
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