The last teams to come into MLB are now 23 seasons old (1998 the Rays and
D'Backs). For 60 years there were only 16 teams in MLB. After the Dodgers and
Giants moved in 1958, expansion really began to take off in 1961 with the Los
Angeles Angels and another incarnation of the Washington Senators when the
previous Senators team moved to Minnesota to become the Twins.
With franchise valuations continuing to increase it's highly likely that
baseball will further expand both domestically and internationally? Where it
goes next is still anyone's guess. We track the history of MLB expansion in
under 30 minutes.
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Thu Dec 17 2020
