Sources: MLB weighing major changes to postseason, including growing number of teams to 14

[Travelman6]

Sources: MLB mulling major changes to playoffs

Major League Baseball is weighing a switch that would increase the number of playoff teams in each league to seven, with three division winners and four wild cards, starting with the 2022 season.

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Not a huge MLB fan but this does not sound appealing to me, at all. Are the 11-14th place teams really going to have any kind of chance of winning it all? I guess on occasion the 11th place team is really solid sometimes even around 90 wins (Indians 93-69 from this previous year) but there are some pretty bad teams for #13th and #14th a lot of years.

I'd rather miss out on the occasional awesome 11th team, like those 93 win Indians last year than have some lackluster 13th and/or 14th place teams from now on (84-78 Redsox being one of the better 14th teams in recent memory). The Cubs were the 15th place team at 84-78 last year. Other than that I wonder when the last time was that the 15th best team finished over .500.

Thoughts? Opinions?

 

[UConnSean]

Not a fan at all, part of the fun of the MLB playoffs are that they are so hard to make. Do we really need half the league making the postseason?

 

[Waquoit]

In the old days, people still followed their team even after they were out of the pennant race. Not anymore. I don't mind more teams but I hate 1-game playoffs.

 

[Zanzman]

Enough teams make the playoffs now we don’t need anymore gimmicks .... like 3 batter minimum awful ideas

 

[Excalibur]

Just lop 4 games off of the regular season, make the wild card a best 2 of 3, and call it a day.

 

[Scoe]

This is stupid and Manfred is a joke.