Since 2012 there have been ten Wild Card games played in MLB with the two Wild Card team system; nine of those twenty teams had 90 plus wins, and eight of those 90 plus win teams played each other in a winner take all game ("Major League Baseball Wild-card Game"). How to improve the Wild Card system has been talked about year after year. There is of course one side opposing this and another agreeing to this change. MLB needs to change the Wild Card system so it is a three game series instead of one game.
People view the MLB season as being too long. Many people have lauded the idea of going back to a 154 game season, but continuing to keep the single game wild card format. This idea can make sense because if MLB does take out eight games from …show more content…
They may win 80-85 games and are good enough to make the playoffs but, not strong enough to win their respective division. There are however always that one team each season that wins 88-95 games during the season which after a long 162 game season it all comes down to one game seems unfair. For a team who could lead another division to play a team who did not perform at the same level all season and for the better team to lose it all on one game is ridiculous. It is even worse when two great teams play each other in one game that decides who advances and who falls short for those 27 outs. It has been done before; 2012 the Atlanta Braves 94 wins and the St. Louis Cardinals 88 wins played in the wildcard game. This game came down to one out when there was an incorrect infield fly rule called which prevented the Braves in having the bases loaded with only one out. There phenomenal season ended 3 1/3rds innings later. In 2015 the 98 win Pittsburgh Pirates and 97 win Chicago Cubs played the anxious one game playoffs which ended with Pittsburgh being shut out in their 2nd straight wild card game …show more content…
Andrew Mccutchen the Pirates center fielders said “Baseball's built for a series more than a one-game [wild-card]," McCutchen said. "You don't ever see anywhere in the game of baseball where 30 teams play a team one time. Doesn't happen. I believe the reason behind that is because the game is so unpredictable, you don't know what's going to happen. He is not wrong. While most sports are unpredictable baseball is the most. In one week the hottest team can be on a decline for a whole month, and in visa verse. Three games is needed because it takes the randomness out of the game more so than in one. The Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais sees the long season coming down to one game as “unenticing” and “tough.” “We saw what happened to the Pirates for a couple of years. They have great seasons. They don't quite win the division. They got to the wild-card game, run into a hot pitcher and it's one and done. That's a little tough”(Divish). Coaches and players would love nothing more than to go out and play two out of three, and if they lose the first game then they at least have some breathing