There were rumors of contracting teams in the past, like the Twins... Expos had moved to D.C. but should they have simply contracted instead? (D.C. really wanted a team bad though.)
A’s interesting situation—they’d like to move to San Jose
but Giants feel it’s their territory.
Team mergers? Teams contracting? Or a couple more expansion teams? Some of the cities may really want it but would
there be enough fans at the games (after the initial novelty)?
And as for “one big league, with conferences”, etc., keep in mind AL and NL are dead set about having DH or not having it. It would be mass warfare among the owners if such a move were floated.
A team in SW Conn.: Yanks and Mets would object. How would Red Sox feel, for example, if an NL team tried to move
to Boston? (For one thing, I don’t know where a team would play...Foxboro? Hey, the Foxboro Foxes, just put a diamond down at Gillette and try a kind of seat re-alignment...naah)
For a second Boston team. I’d put them smack in the middle of MetroWest. The old Route 30 Mall area in Framingham would be perfect.