MLB’s New Playoff Format: Logical or Not?

Friday, 05 October 2012 | by Pat's Picks

The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay explains MLB’s wacky new two wild-card playoff format in today’s paper. He writes: “Sure, it’s nice to be assured that Game 5 will be in your place. But the home team holds, and they only have to take one of three on the road. I still don’t completely see the logic. At the very least it’s debatable. Welcome to baseball.”

SOURCE: Wall Street Journal