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The 2022 postseason featured a new format, expanding the pool of teams from 10 to 12 and replacing the two single-elimination Wild Card Games with four best-of-three Wild Card Series, to be followed by the best-of-five Division Series.
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The Wild Card Series (formerly known as Wild Card Game from 2012 to 2019 and in 2021) are games that serve as the opening round of the Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason. A single wild card game was first instituted in 2012; best-of-three playoff wild card series were adopted for the 2022 season.How many games is the wild card series From 2012 to 2021 (except 2020), the wild card was just one game. But under the new collective bargaining agreement signed in March, each series will be best-of-three.
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Why are there 3 wild card teams
The two wild card teams could come out of the same division so there was no guarantee a team that came in second place in their division would make the playoffs. The system was changed in 2022 to add a third wild card team from each league, along with replacing the play-in game with three-game series.
