Major League Baseball has made it official. There will be two more wild card teams in the playoffs this year. Although any change is controversial, it should a lot of excitement.
Basically these new wild card teams will play a one game playoff against the other wild card team to see who advances and plays the #1 seed in their division. If this had been in place last year both the Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox who had historic collapses would have gotten in to the playoffs.
What I like about it is that it puts so many more teams in contention. Otherwise you can get into August and 2/3rds of the teams have given up and they start dumping all of their good players to save payroll. For a market with a rebuilding team, Nationals, this just increases the possibility that they could make the playoffs.
For a more in-depth description of how the new rule works, Jason Stark has a great article on it: http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7637317/mlb-new-postseason-plan
Play ball!
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