Question by furthermore_82: Why are the Pittsburgh Pirates & Philadelphia Phillies in different divisions?
The cities are only 300 miles apart, but they are placed into different divisions? What gives? The NL Central has 6 teams and the NL East has 5, so why doesn’t MLB just shift Pittsburgh over to the NL East? This way it still preserves the 16/14 league split which works for Interleague play.
Best answer:
Answer by Rick
This way Penn fans get to see the Central and the East teams a lot. Why are the Yankees and Mets in different leagues? That’s just how baseball does it.
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