If you have been around baseball for as long as I have (and many of you have been around it longer), if a team won the NL or AL Pennant, they played the winner of the opposite league in the World Series. Then, if they won four games in that series, they were declared World Champion. Simple! They were the best team in baseball that season. It was simple. It was clear. It’s not that way anymore!
Now, if you win the division, you have to sit out for a week while the Wild Card teams play a best-of-three series.