Why are the amount of teams in the AL and NL unbalanced?

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It's dumb

but it's so that every team can play on everyday. There's 14 teams in the AL so there can be 7 games, and 16 in the NL for 8 games and no one has to have a day off.

The Brewers used to be in the AL but they switched it so this would work

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What do you think about Roger clemens return to the yankees?

Right now, there are 30 major league teams. If there were 15 teams in each league, that means 14 teams would be playing while one team sits idle, which would really screw up scheduling. So, there are 14 teams in the AL and 16 in the NL so that all the teams can play.

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World's most valuable baseball?

There are 30 MLB teams, which is a number evenly divisible by 2 but not by 4.

In order to avoid some teams not having long off periods, the leagues have a different number of teams.

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