# Yankees (and other MLB) off season (edited title) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [October 6, 2021, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-and-other-mlb-off-season-edited-title/951999 "2021-10-06T11:16:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 64
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-and-other-mlb-off-season-edited-title/951999/64 "2021-10-08T23:28:27Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I don’t see enough of a difference in “Fairness” between a nine and a ten game lead. Well, the line has to be drawn _somewhere_, and I think a 10-game lead is a pretty good point where we can safely say “yeah, the team with the better record is getting jobbed if the system is allowing them to be eliminated from the playoffs in just one game”. > [@Telemark](#): > > Burning one pitcher is enough of a disadvantage for the WC teams, burning two starting pitchers in elimination games puts them in a horrendous hole. Good point about burning pitchers. If I had my way, I’d shorten the regular season and give more time after the wild card games for rest, but I don’t think that will be popular. Or perhaps an unholy mashup of my proposal and **asahi** ’s idea from [this post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/95) might work - if a wild card team has a record that is ≥ 15 games better than the division winner with the _worst_ record among all the division winners, then the teams swap spots - the division winner has to play in one wild card game, while the “wild card” team goes straight to the divisional series. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-and-other-mlb-off-season-edited-title/951999)._