MLB 2020. Now with more postseason!

Mere hours before a baseball season that began ominously with a Yankees win. MLB announced that there will be an expanded playoffs.

Each league will have eight teams.

All three division champions. All three second-place teams. And then the top two teams remaining after that. It's something similar to how the NHL does it.

And then everyone will play a best of three first round series and go from there.

As a purist I don't like it. But as a way to kind of minimize the randomness of baseball in a 60 game season, I don't mind it for this one year.

If you're playing just 60 games, you can't really be certain that the team that finishes with the best record is considerably better than the team that finishes with the 8th best record.

Because that's baseball. It just doesn't work that way.

This will also help to keep worthy playoff teams still in the playoffs that maybe, you know, had one bad week that could knock you out in a 60 game season, but now they'll be able to still get in.

From the Twins perspective this absolutely should be a good thing because it means unless you finish in third place you're in the playoffs and I have a hard time believing that the Twins would finish behind BOTH Chicago and Cleveland

I of course picked them to win the division and I'm sticking by that.

But now I have to re-do my playoff picks. 


AL Division champs: Twins, Yankees, Athletics

2nd place teams: Rays, White Sox, Astros

Extra 2 teams: Angels, Cleveland

NL Division champs: Phillies, Brewers, Dodgers

2nd place teams: Braves, Cardinals, Padres

Extra 2 teams: Cubs, Nationals. 

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