MLB’s new proposed playoff format is incredibly awful
by Tom Joyce
| February 11, 2020 01:02 PM
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred just found the perfect way to ruin the league's playoff format.
As ESPN first reported, MLB is considering changing its playoff format, potentially expanding from 10 teams to 14 starting in 2022. There would be three divisional winners in the American League and National League, as well as four wild-card spots in each league.
The top teams in each league would then receive a bye in the first round of the playoffs, and the remaining divisional winners and the top wild-card teams would host a best-of-three series in the first round of the playoffs.
The format would also allow the top two division winners in each league to choose their playoff opponents in the second round of the playoffs.
Simply put, it's an awful idea.
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