Comments on the Proposed New Playoff Format
This week, Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported that MLB was considering a proposal for a new playoff format . Pursuant to the proposal, each league would send seven teams to the playoffs, as opposed to the current five. The three division winners would be joined by four wild card teams. The team with the best record in each league would earn a first round bye. The division leaders, as well as the wild card team with the best record, would host a first round play-off series, which would be a best-of-three series. That's right. They would host all three games, not merely two out of the three. But so far, we have not reached the most unusual part of the proposal. Two of the three teams hosting the first round of playoffs would get to choose their opponent from the bottom three wild card teams. The division winner in this first round with the best record would have first choice. The final division winner would get the second c...