How come the NL central has 6 teams as opposed to every other division that has 5 and the AL west that only 4?

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Because the Milwaukee Brewers switched leagues. Yet another one of Bud Selig's moves to "enhance" baseball. >:^(. Otherwise, they would be in the AL Central, and one of those teams--probably Minnesota--would be in the AL West. Truly, Bud Selig is a dingus.

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Because the way it used to be each league (american/national) only had two divisions each-East and West. When they restructured to add more playoffs teams (wildcard and 3 division winners) They split up the divisions geographically.

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My guess is geography but I dont really know.

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The imbalance is because of Bud Selig (who else). The Milwaukee Braves, formerly the Boston Braves, and later the Atlants Braves, have the tradition as a National League club. When the realignment went through (to three divisions), the Brewers were transferred from the AL to NL because of the "tradition."

If Milwaukee stayed in the AL, there wouldn't be this ridiculous situation.

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If you had each league with 15 teams one team would be idle in every series (15 does not divide by 2 evenly), or there would be an interleague game every day of the season.

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you have 16 nl teams and 14 al teams..there is no way to have all divisions with equal amounts of teams.

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The last MLB expansion took the number of teams to 30. If they were divided equally between leagues, one team in each league would always be off.

Instead, the Devil Rays went to the AL and the Diamondbacks to the NL, while the Brewers were volunteered by that imposter of a comissioner to move to the NL, so that each league would have an even number of teams.

Within each league, there are three divisions, and the teams are divided as evenly as is possible between the divisions.

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This happened because Bud Selig, in his infinite wisdom, decided to move the Brewers from the AL to the NL. There was no basis for this move, because they didn't change cities, and there was no new expansion team at the time.

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because when they realligned the divisionsfor wildcard they messed up..plus bud selig is a moron

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THERES MORE TEAMS IN THE CENTRAL AND BIGGER CITYS THAN THE COASTS

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that is for the front office at MLB to answer

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No their are more chances to win the division. You have 19 rival games any other division, except for the AL West. I like this. I have no problem.

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