Originally Posted by
bkzwhitestrican
The playoff format is fine for this weird shortened season. Good teams could be excluded or bad teams included if the format is left the same. Last year the Nats started the season off at 27-33, so they wouldn't even sniff the playoffs if a 60-game season had last year's playoff format. Not only that, but by having a lot more teams eligible for the playoffs we will see more competitive baseball at the end of the regular season (as opposed to September just being a wasted month for half the teams in the league).
And who knows, maybe there'll be some 14th seed Cinderella story that goes on to win the WS, like the White Sox or some shit. Would be cool.