7/27/2023 0 Comments Postseason mlb schedule![]() MLB postseason’s arrival hopes to bring new memories in this new era of these playoffs where the field of participating teams expanded from 10 to 12 and a new best 2-of-3 Wild Card series was established. The Los Angeles Dodgers achieved a franchise-best 111 regular-season wins while the defending world champion Atlanta Braves swept the formerly-dominant New York Mets on the final weekend of the season to help capture the NL East division title. From Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge topping Roger Maris’ legendary single-season home run mark for an American Leaguer to the rejuvenated future Hall of Fame Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols joining the 700 home run club for his career. That’s a bit of an odd choice on the surface, but it could perhaps aid MLB in marketing the postseason as an NCAA basketball-style bracket.To sign up for our daily email newsletter, CLICK HERE Follow Follow 2022 Major League Baseball ( MLB) season concluded having provided many memorable moments. 5 Wild Card series in the second round, even if the #6 seed beats the #3 seed. ![]() ![]() The top seed in each league will host the winner of the 4 vs. Rather than conducting a one-game playoff between teams that finish tied for postseason spots, a prearranged formula will determine the field.įinally, the division series won’t be reseeded, Sawchik reports. The specifics aren’t clear, but other leagues have used such things as head-to-head record between tied clubs and winning percentage in intra-league games as tiebreakers. Jayson Stark of the Athletic reports ( Twitter link) there are seeding tiebreakers in place in the event teams finish the year with the same regular season record. Interestingly, the potential Game 163 tiebreaker has also been scrapped. It remained in place through 2021, but the one-game playoff has been eliminated in favor of three-game series moving forward. The one-game playoff between the two Wild Card clubs in each league took effect with MLB moving from eight to ten postseason qualifiers back in 2012. With the postseason expansion, the Wild Card game is no more. That’s before accounting for gate and concession revenue for clubs hosting those additional games. Going from 10 to 12 clubs marked a major concession in its own right the introduction of a new round of the postseason is worth a reported $85MM annually for the league under the terms of its broadcasting arrangement with ESPN. Describing that as a loss for the league, which had sought 14 for most of negotiations, wouldn’t be entirely accurate though. Ultimately, the union held firm on the 12-team playoff this time around. The MLBPA was unenthused by the possibility of going to 14 playoff teams, fearing that doing so would disincentivize clubs from ardently upgrading their rosters if they believed they were already comfortable postseason qualifiers. The union’s push for a “ghost win” seemed more rooted in concerns about a potential 14-team format than with the 12-team arrangement, though. MLB opposed that idea, and it didn’t make it into the final agreement. The Players Association had previously floated the possibility of division winners starting with a one-game advantage in any first-round set against a Wild Card club. The worst division winner will face the final Wild Card qualifier, while the top two Wild Card clubs will take on one another. Travis Sawchik of The Score reports the format ( via Twitter): the top two division winners in each league receive first-round byes, while the worst division winner and the three Wild Card teams per league will play three-game sets to advance to the Division Series. ![]() As expected, the collective bargaining agreement expanded the postseason field from ten teams to twelve. ![]()
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