It’s more like the NBA and NHL, which has geographically-based divisions but still manages to have most everyone play each year. It’s seemed to work well for them for quite a while
This sounds different. In those leagues you play the teams in the other conference less often even if you do play them every year. Such as the NBA the Wizards only play the west coast teams twice a year but play the East more often. Also baseball has three game series trips can be long. The most logical thing would be to play all the NL teams the same amount of games but more than what you play the AL (if you are an NL team). If you play each of the the 29 teams the same amount of games you would play each only 5/6 times each year.
