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Old 02-11-2020, 08:18 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14 View Post
While I don't see a need for baseball to be tied down to tradition so much, those changes are just awful. Going to a seven team set up with best of threes is actually worse than the current six team set up with two winner-take-all play-in games. This would actually dilute the value of the playoffs.
You'd really have to make it count to be a higher seed. Like all three games in the wildcard round in the higher seeds stadium and all 5 games in the next round as well. Japan does this.

This means the lower seeded team can never set their starting rotation because there are no off days.
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