IIRC when they realigned to 3 divisions Cleveland was offered the move to the NL to even out the leagues, and when they declined Milwaukee was next in line
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Huh, I don't recall ever hearing that Cleveland was in the mix, that's interesting. Understandable that they declined, though, as an original AL team. Milwaukee made sense, they'd been an NL city before.
dec 13, 2024, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't recall that either. I do remember that the Brewers were in the AL Central and the Tigers in the AL East from '94 through '97.
dec 13, 2024, 8:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Baseball Reference appears to solve the mystery of my faulty memory. KC was the first option
dec 13, 2024, 8:55 pm • 0 0 • view
ahhh okay I *do* vaguely remember that now
dec 13, 2024, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Long live the devil rays
dec 14, 2024, 3:16 am • 0 0 • view
I wish I could find some evidence that this isn't just a false memory of mine, but I'm coming up empty. But @banachspaceprogram.bsky.social you're right about the timing, it wasn't realignment
dec 13, 2024, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view