The Major League Baseball postseason is one of the most exciting and unpredictable events in sports. The success of a 162-game season is defined by the outcome of a handful of games for a sport that openly mocks the usage of small sample sizes to justify conclusions about a player or a team.
This is a month-long ritual that every baseball fan enters willingly. There aren’t many clamors out there for a return to the pre-expansion era. The postseason was simply the World Series, with the best record in the American League and National League going straight off to the Fall Classic.