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The division series will be 2-3 instead of 2-2-1 this year.
They had to find and extra day for the wild card play-in.
Just got the press release. It’s official: expanded playoffs for 2012.
And what we learned this morning — that a division winner will open on the road against the winner of the wild card playoff — is official:
For the 2012 Postseason only, the five-game Division Series will begin with two home games for lower seeds, followed by up to three home games for higher seeds. This one-year change will eliminate a travel day prior to a decisive Game Five of the Division Series and was necessary because the 2012 regular season schedule was announced before the agreement on the new Postseason was reached. Next year, the Division Series will return to the 2-2-1 format used in previous years.
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/02/mlb-makes-the-expanded-playoffs-official-for-2012/related/
And what we learned this morning — that a division winner will open on the road against the winner of the wild card playoff — is official:
For the 2012 Postseason only, the five-game Division Series will begin with two home games for lower seeds, followed by up to three home games for higher seeds. This one-year change will eliminate a travel day prior to a decisive Game Five of the Division Series and was necessary because the 2012 regular season schedule was announced before the agreement on the new Postseason was reached. Next year, the Division Series will return to the 2-2-1 format used in previous years.
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/02/mlb-makes-the-expanded-playoffs-official-for-2012/related/
