If Major League Baseball expands to 32 teams in the future, divisions could be realigned, according to recent remarks from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred.

The Houston Astros could stay in the American League or move into a new conference in two proposed MLB realignments.

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred told a national TV audience that expansion likely would be tied to reshuffling leagues and divisions to ease travel.

Baseball insiders have whispered about the possibility of regional-based realignment for a few years. MLB commissioner Rob Mandred was asked directly about it on Sunday night during an ESPN broadcast, and didn’t shy away from his next bold rules change.

MLB’s divisions haven’t changed since the Astros moved from the NL Central to the AL West in 2013. Jim Bowden of The Athletic created new divisions based off the news. It included a “North Division” made up of the Tigers, Blue Jays, Guardians and Reds.

Others are less definitive on Salt Lake City getting an expansion team, but ESPN’s Bradford Doolittle noted this week that Salt Lake City is among four cities located in the West that have a real shot and landing a franchise, along with San Jose, California; Portland, Oregon; and Vancouver, British Columbia.

By the time the league expands – most likely by two teams – it will have been 30 years or more since the last time MLB expanded when the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays came online in 1998. That’s the longest stretch in the post-expansion era that began in 1961.

If Major League Baseball undergoes radical realignment and puts the Yankees and Mets in the same division down the road, their fans will have to “relearn who to love and who to hate” in terms of opposing teams.