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What are your thoughts on Jim Bowden of The Athletics proposed division realignment when two expansion teams are inevitably added? : r/baseball
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Ohtani goes over the batter's eye in Houston for his 41st home run
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What are your thoughts on Jim Bowden of The Athletics proposed division realignment when two expansion teams are inevitably added? : r/baseball