There also is a lot of work being done on creating two 15-team leagues, which is tied up with the sale of the Astros because Houston is the club most likely to be moved from the NL to the AL to even the number of clubs in each league….

That is one reason why the sides want to go to two 15-team leagues. Because it likely would mean clubs from different divisions would play more similar schedules, thus, making the competition for wild cards across divisions fairer. Also, there would be six five-team divisions, which would mean all clubs would be competing against the same number of opponents within their division to make the playoffs.

– Joel Sherman, N.Y. Post.

I’ve said my piece already (many times) about the league adding a second wild card, which Sherman outlines elsewhere in his column. But I’ve noticed some resentment among fans for the idea of two 15-team leagues because it would mean constant interleague play. But best I can tell, there would be a way to do it while actually reducing the total number of interleague games.

Right now, there are 252 interleague games a season, all of them bunched into specific weeks and weekends when all but two teams play against an interleague opponent.

But if there were always one interleague series being played (as necessitated by 15-team leagues) but never more than one, there would actually be a lot fewer interleague games in total — about 162, obviously.

Every team would play three or four interleague series randomly distributed throughout the course of the season, as opposed to the five or six series they have now.

Naturally the league could wind up keeping to 252 games or expanding, since nowhere has anyone said two 15-team leagues would mean reduced interleague play.