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Originally Posted by Fyrestorm3
Wildcards were put in place to help make an imbalanced schedule a bit more fair.
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The wild cards are there because there are three divisions. The blame (if one wants to ascribe such) for the concept belongs to the NFL, which was the first to implement the idea in 1970. It took MLB awhile, but it did finally adopt the idea itself.
For the record, the AL used a (nearly) balanced schedule from 1979-2000 while the NL used a (nearly) balanced schedule from 1993-2000.