The Pros and Cons of New MLB Playoff Format for Mariners

While the Mookie Betts trade became official yesterday, the biggest news outside of those two markets came from Joel Sherman’s report that MLB is proposing a new playoff format. What could this mean for the Mariners?

The baseball world was rocked back on Monday when Joel Sherman reported that MLB is proposing a brand new playoff format beginning in 2022 that would, amongst other things, raise the number of playoff teams from 5 in each league, to 7. Naturally, Mariners’ nation had some opinions.

You can read everything that is known about the proposal here, but anytime MLB implements a rule change, no matter how small, people instantly make hard opinions. Now granted, changing a playoff format…