# MLB: 2022 Postseason **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [October 5, 2022, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753 "2022-10-05T10:25:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/281 "2022-10-19T21:44:49Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > In which case, why have playoffs at all? Why not just declare the best record as the champ and move on to next year? Premier League agrees with you. And for many years in baseball, the second-place team in each league was just the first loser. You had to win the regular-season pennant to get to the World Series. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/282 "2022-10-19T22:23:04Z")
Home plate umpire in the Padres/Phillies game is making a huge case for robotic umps. Any pitch within shouting distance of the plate is called a strike. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/283 "2022-10-19T23:34:43Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > NFL has 14 playoff teams, out of 32. For me the magic number is 10. Each division winner and one wild card team per conference that plays the division winner with the worst record in the wild card round. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/284 "2022-10-19T23:45:16Z")
You mean the previous system with 2 wild cards per league that play against each other first? Otherwise, each division winner plus 1 wild card is 4 teams per league ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/285 "2022-10-19T23:52:56Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > MLB has 12 playoff teams, out of 30. > NFL has 14 playoff teams, out of 32. > NHL has 16 playoff teams, out of 32. > NBA, with its new ‘play-in tourney’, now has 20 playoff teams, out of 30. > > In my opinion, which matters not a whit to anybody, each of these leagues has too many playoff teams. I agree. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/286 "2022-10-20T00:13:38Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Otherwise, each division winner plus 1 wild card is 4 teams per league You might wanna check your math, there are 4 divisions per conference in the NFL. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/287 "2022-10-20T00:28:45Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Premier League agrees with you. On the other hand, Premier League teams also have a race at the bottom to avoid relegation, and then there’s Champions League, which some of those teams compete in, which has no equivalent in a North American pro sport. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/288 "2022-10-20T00:34:42Z")
British footie has two additional leagues that also participate in the promotion/relegation scheme, as well as in the League and FA Cup elimination tournaments. And the top 5 teams in the Premier league qualify for European competition. It all makes the American sporting arrangements look so bland. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/289 "2022-10-20T01:48:17Z")
Ah, I thought you meant MLB because of the thread. Never mind ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/290 "2022-10-20T01:58:25Z")
Yeesh, back to back homers. Those Yankees relievers really might decide the series and not in a good way ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/291 "2022-10-20T02:01:34Z")
The thread _did_ swerve a bit off-topic for a moment. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/292 "2022-10-20T02:06:11Z")
I thought the MLB playoffs with 5 teams was perfect. Three division winners and 2 wild-card teams that played each other in a 1 game win-or-go-home playoff game. This wild card game produced some amazing outcomes, like the 2014 Royals/A’s game that KC won 9-8 in 12 innings. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/293 "2022-10-20T02:47:11Z")
Damn, Matt Carpenter did not come through. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/294 "2022-10-20T03:24:37Z")
Gawd, what a yawner. 6 runs scored with 5 on solo homers. Almost no action on the base baths. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/295 "2022-10-20T05:22:00Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > > [@Bullitt](#): > > > > The more teams in the playoffs, the more fan interest. It’s all about the money, for owners and TV, all around. > > As opposed to what other reason or method? Crowning the very best team? In which case, why have playoffs at all? Why not just declare the best record as the champ and move on to next year? (Had a thread about this a while back.) There are too many teams in the playoffs. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/296 "2022-10-20T06:00:10Z")
i wonder how would one do the advancment/elegation thing in MLB… ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/297 "2022-10-20T06:31:13Z")
What is that? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/298 "2022-10-20T07:51:52Z")
in British soccer they have like various leagues and depending on how the team does it moves up and down the various leagues using baseball as an example the top leagues are the national and the American and there’s AAA AA and A a new team would start out in single A and if it won a championship or has a great record it would move up to double a or if a double A team lost 90 percent of their games it would move down to single-A one of the more interesting aspects of it is when a basically beer league team makes it up to the top for a couple of seasons Or a million-dollar team ends up in the dirt … ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/299 "2022-10-20T10:50:21Z")
Ahh, gotcha. I don’t follow British soccer. Thanks for the explanation. If you’re not familiar with it (and disregard if you are), those A, AA, and AAA teams are Minor League Baseball, or MiLB. The MiLB League does not play 162 games in the regular season, while MLB does. MiLB plays fewer games. And, there MiLB ballparks are much smaller. Single-A parks typically hold a few thousand, less than 10,000. The Single-A San Jose Giants play fewer than 70 games a season in a ballpark that holds 4,200. Anyway that concept would be interesting to apply to MLB and MiLB together. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753/300 "2022-10-20T11:59:01Z")
As much as I like the Carpenter story this year and and much fun as it has been, the LCS is not the place to get your timing back after an injury. Let Stanton DH and put Cabrera back in LF. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2022-postseason/972753.md?page=16)