MLB should not eliminate entire baseball organizations. Instead, they should temporarily suspend team operations at the Major League and AAA levels. This would last 2-3 years. Major League Baseball would pay a buyout fee to the current ownership groups of these 2-4 franchises and own the teams during this transition period.

What this would do essentially is grant 2-4 expansion franchises. The current cities would have the right of first refusal to get these teams. After that, any ownership group can bid on the remaining teams. The original cities, however, may bid on the franchises after refusal, although they now would have to compete with potential ownership groups from other cities. They would be considered expansion teams, with no prior history (like the 1997 NFL Baltimore Ravens) although they would have existing minor league organizations.

Ownership groups outside of the 2-4 cities would bidding on an expansion franchise and not an existing organization. A lottery would be in place to figure out which ownership groups would get the existing minor league organizations.

There would be a dispersal draft of the players on the major league and AAA rosters of the teams to be suspended. In addition, any players in these organizations who has played a combined ten games or more in the AAA and Major League levels may make themselves eligible for the draft.

In the event that a suspended team resumes play in its 2001 city, all players who played in that organization in 2001 (in the AAA or Major League level) will have an escape clause in their future contracts to return to that team if the team wants them to return.