what is meant by the wild card team in baseball
NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball expanded its playoff format to 10 teams Friday, adding a second wild card in each league. The decision establishes a new one-game, wild-card round in each league between the teams with the best records who are not division winners, meaning a third-place team could win the World Series. This is the only change in baseball's playoff structure since the 1995 season, when wild-card teams were first added. This change increases the rewards of a division championship and allows two additional markets to experience playoff baseball each year, commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement.