- Postseason is 12 teams (six per league); the top two division winners in each league get a bye while the other eight play in the Wild Card round.
- Wild Card is now a best-of-three (no more one-game playoff), with the higher seed hosting every game and a fixed bracket into the Division Series.
- Ties no longer trigger a Game 163 (resolved by tiebreaker formulas), the extra‑inning automatic runner is gone for the postseason, and the World Series is set to open Oct. 23 on FOX.
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