MLB Schedules and Alignment

As usual there is some grumbling about the schedules and alignment of the leagues in Major League Baseball. Some hate seeing teams like the hapless Orioles sit in a division with the Yankees and Red Sox. Some hate seeing horrible teams like the Pirates and Reds play each other almost 20 times a year. Some cant figure out how one division has 6 teams, another 4, and how thats all fair in the end. Some just hate 162 games a year. Some just like to cause trouble.

Others talk about history. How its not their fault the Orioles wont spend enough, and then point at the Rays. Others like to sit and watch the Pirates have a chance to win all those games against the Reds. Some even understand why the NL central has 6 teams. Some just don't care.

For me, I like history, I like fairness, and I tend to be able to make sense of the craziness of the MLB. Lets get a few things out of the way. The reason for the unbalanced divisions is due to the fact that the NL and AL didn't always play each other during the season. While they do now, its only a tiny bit. Also baseball is almost daily. Because of these two factors, each league needs an even number of teams. 30 MLB teams splits to 15, uneven, so the AL has 14 and the NL 16. That way you can have on any given night 7 AL games and 8 NL games, and no team sitting at home alone. The leagues do play each other now, interleague play as its called. This only happens at certain times in the year, and its only a small part of the season.

My fix to all of the complaints? Well if the leagues gave in to interleague play a few years back, they may as well go all the way. You've already ruined it for the purists, and rest of the fans want all the teams to come to their home stadiums. If interleague play is year round, then you can even the leagues out, and lower the number of games some teams play against each other.
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Here are my ideas:

Move the Astros to the NL West. This drops the central to 5 teams, and the Astros are in the west, like the Rangers are in the AL West.

Move the Rockies to the AL West. The Rockies are a newer team, so the history isn't as deep. Makes a complete change in leagues easier. Could move Arizona instead, doesn't matter.

Right now its a mess, but most teams play around 16 to 18 games against each team in their division. Lower this to 10 games. 6 against other league teams, and 4 against each team in the other league. This comes out to 160 games per team.
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The upsides and downsides? Well instead of 18 Yankees - Red Sox games, each team will have two game home stands against the Pirates, Brewers, Reds, and Nationals. Of course they will bring the Phillies, Mets, and Dodgers to town too. You can still have the DH or no DH at each team's home stadium, but this means each team needs to balance rosters each way. This may or may not be a good thing, but I don't think it will be that big of a deal. The balance of good games on the schedule could be tougher. Making sure division rivals still have some games left to play each other late in the year, and not road games at the other leagues cellar dwellers, could take a bit of work. I think in the end though these changes could fix a lot of problems, and not cause many others, and may even make baseball more popular.