It's nonetheless a six-month, 162-game marathon wherein massive league groups are on the sphere six or seven days per week. That has not modified over the previous six-plus a long time.
However just about all the pieces else has. Pennant races are misplaced to historical past. There's a four-round postseason construction. Main League Baseball has grow to be a playoff league simply as absolutely because the NFL, the NBA and the NHL.
And that's the reason, as maddening because it has been to listen to Aaron Boone insist a number of instances all through this summer season that has left a lot to be desired, that “it's all in entrance of us,” the very fact is that the Yankees supervisor is totally appropriate.
The wild-card Texas Rangers won the 2023 World Series with the sixth-best regular-season document within the league by defeating the wild-card Diamondbacks, who had completed with the Twelfth-best document. The NHL Florida Panthers captured the Stanley Cup this June after ending with the NHL's Eleventh-best document.
