Major League Baseball Owners and the Players Union came to an agreement last night to expand the playoff field to 16 teams, 8 teams from the National League and 8 teams from the American League.

The 3 division winners in each League will be seeded 1, 2 and 3 according to their records at the end of the season. Best record will be the No.1 seed and so forth. All 3 second place teams in each division will qualify for the playoffs with the 2 other teams with the best records filling out the 8 team tournament for each League.

The first round of the playoffs are scheduled for Sept. 29-Oct. 3 and will be 4, best of 3 series in each league at the higher seed’s stadium. The division winners will be seeded 1-3, the second place teams 4-6, and the teams with the next 2 best records 7 and 8. First round pairings will be 1 versus 8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5.

The rest of the rounds will be their customary length with the NLDS and the ALDS playing in a best of 5 series, while the NLCS and the ALCS and the World Series will be 7 game series with the first team to 4 wins winning it.

I didn’t know what I thought about this yesterday when the Players Union had passed it, but I like it now. More playoff baseball. Pretty exciting stuff.