The end of the 2022 Major League Baseball regular season lacked drama, with five of the six division champions winning by at least seven games and the wild-card races losing luster down the stretch.
Fortunately, everything’s about to change.
The MLB postseason begins Friday, with four wild-card matchups — two in the American League and two in the National League — on the schedule. The eight teams participating in the new-look wild-card round, which consists of four best-of-three series, are vying for spots in the Division Series, where the Houston Astros and New York Yankees await in the AL and the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves stand by in the NL.