PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Commissioner Bud Selig is “very hopeful” another wild card team from each league will be added this season.
Selig says that a committee formed to work out details of expanding the playoffs from eight teams to 10 is dealing with scheduling issues. Addition of a second wild card in each league would add a one-game play-in between teams with the two best records in each league that are not division winners. Selig says that would mean condensing the overall playoff schedule.
Selig says the committee knows he is an ardent supporter of the concept. Under the new collective bargaining agreement, MLB and the players’ union must agree by March 1 whether to add the new round for 2012.
