MLB looking at adding one more Wild Card team. The two Wild Card teams would then play each other in a single-game playoff or best-of-three.
http://content.usatoday.com/communit...mlb-playoffs/1
I like the idea. Gives more teams hope and also makes winning the division much more important. The Rays-Yankees race as an example would have been way more interesting with this format.
Looking at this year as an example, instead of Boston and Chicago being 6 and 7 games back of the wild card respectively in a non-race, Chicago would be one game behind Boston (and Toronto would be four games back at the end). Not to mention, we'd get Boston vs. New York in a best-of-three to kick off the postseason.