[TheMaus2]

overwhelmingly pro the current playoff system. i think it has made late season baseball immensely more interesting (mariners getting eliminated on the second to last day! the fact that the padres had a chance to win out to claim the third wild card!) and it has provably incentivized teams to try and compete a little bit more in season, which is something that good owners should be pushing to do.

perhaps the mlb could do some reseeding after the wildcard rounds to offset playoff variance, but i think its fun that arizona won a pennant after acquiring a deathly closer in sewald (until he wasnt) and that texas won after adding scherzy and monty to the rotation. not to say that adding another playoff team will be the end of tanking, but teams should be motivated to field competitive squads and not just tank when they're out of the division race.

and if the dodgers, phillies, braves, etc. were the 'true' champions, they should have just won more games in the playoffs. that's just a fact of life.