Sometime in the next 20 years, MLB will expand to 32 teams. The league has finally recovered talent-wise from the cash-grab expansion of 1998 and it just makes more sense to have a league with 32 teams in it than one with the current 30 members. Right now the impediment to expansion is suitable cities [...]
The Mets were never going to trade for Didi Gregorius. The Diamondbacks asking price was too high (Noah Syndergaard) and Gregorius didn't fit the Mets' need for an offensive-minded shortstop. A platoon-at-best all-glove, no-bat was not going to happen at a steep price. And the glove isn't even that good, as both UZR and DRS [...]
