OT-Expanded playoffs agreed to for the 2020 season only

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Sources say that in a 16-team postseason, all first-round games in a best-of-3 first round would be played at the home of the higher seed.

So there would be no travel day.
 
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MLBPA and MLB have agreed on a $50 million postseason bonus pool for players with 16 teams for this year. In negotiations last month, MLB offered $25 million. Players have voted, now up to owners to ratify.
 
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Interesting wrinkle in the 16-team playoff format: All second-place teams in the six divisions qualify. Then the 7th and 8th teams will be chosen by best record among other teams.
 
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If every postseason series goes the distance in a 16-team format (best-of-3, best-of-5, best-of-7, best-of-7), there would be 65 postseason games this year.

There were 66 in the entire decade of the 1960s.
 
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