Major League Baseball is weighing a radical shakeup to its postseason structure centered around expanding the number of qualifying teams from five to seven per league, according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post.
In the new system, the No. 1 seed in each league would receive an automatic bye into the divisional round. The other two division winners, and the wild card team with the best record, would host every game in a three-game wild card round.
The division winner with the second-best record would choose which team to face in the wild-card round.