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MLB ISN’T READY FOR EXPANSION

@JOE_SHEEHAN

Since taking over as commissioner, Rob Manfred has brought up expansion countless times, giving the idea of additional Major League Baseball franchises an air of inevitability.

The idea is seductive. For one thing, 32 teams is a more elegant number for baseball than 30, because it would create

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