Just sooner or later stays within the 2022 Major League Baseball common season however the expanded, 12-team playoff bracket is already finalized. The Phillies turned into the twelfth and ultimate workforce to punch its playoff price ticket on Monday, and Braves clinched the NL East over the Mets on Tuesday. The 2022 MLB playoffs get began on Friday with the best-of-three Wild Card Series.
Now let’s soar into the standings, playoff matchups, and postseason odds, and let’s additionally recall that the construction of the postseason is other beginning this 12 months.
Clinched spots
- Dodgers: Clinched NL West, No. 1 seed in NL, domestic field all the way through postseason
- Astros: Clinched AL West, No. 1 seed in AL
- Mets: Clinched No. 4 seed in NL
- Braves: Clinched NL East, No. 2 seed in NL
- Yankees: Clinched AL East, No. 2 seed in AL
- Guardians: Clinched AL Central, No. 3 seed in AL
- Cardinals: Clinched NL Central, No. 3 seed in NL
- Blue Jays: Clinched No. 4 seed in AL
- Mariners: Clinched No. 5 seed in AL
- Rays: Clinched No. 6 seed in AL
- Padres: Clinched No. 5 seed in NL
- Phillies: Clinched No. 6 seed in NL
The new, 12-team playoff format
During the hot negotiation of the new collective bargaining settlement, avid gamers and house owners agreed to a new and expanded postseason construction shifting ahead. That new construction starts with the present season, and here is a reminder of the way it’ll paintings.
- The postseason field grows from 10 groups to twelve groups with the addition of an additional wild-card entrant in each and every league.
- The Wild Card Game has been changed through the best-of-three Wild Card Series, which purposes as the primary around of play. The upper seed in each and every Wild Card Series will host the entire video games of that collection, be it two or the utmost 3 video games.
- The most sensible two department winners in each and every league, as made up our minds through preferrred general file right through the common season, get a first-round bye. That way they advance instantly to the best-of-five Division Series that purposes as the second one around.
- The 4 wild-card around individuals in each and every league contain the department winner with the worst file amongst department winners and the 3 non-division winners with the finest information. That department winner is mechanically the No. 3 seed without reference to whether or not one or the entire different wild-card groups has a greater file.
- To summarize, here is how the playoff seeding will paintings in each and every league — No. 1 seed (bye to LDS): Best file in league; No. 2 seed (bye to LDS): Second-best file amongst department winners; No. 3 seed: Third-best file amongst department winners; No. 4 seed: Best file amongst wild-card groups; No. 5 seed: Second-best file amongst wild-card groups; No. 6 seed: Third-best file amongst wild-card groups.
The League Championship Series and World Series stay best-of-seven collection with home-field benefit going to the workforce with the finest file in each and every collection. Note that there is no re-seeding after any around.
Got it? Now here is the place issues stand presently in terms of the races for those berths and seeds.
Bracket
American League
- Byes: No. 1 Astros and No. 2 Yankees
- Wild Card Series: No. 5 Mariners at No. 4 Blue Jays (winner faces No. 1 seed)
- Wild Card Series: No. 6 Rays at No. 3 Guardians (winner faces No. 2 seed)
National League
- Byes: No. 1 Dodgers and No. 2 Braves
- Wild Card Series: No. 5 Padres at No. 4 Mets (winner faces No. 1 seed)
- Wild Card Series: No. 6 Phillies at No. 3 Cardinals (winner faces No. 2 seed)
MLB standings
(Postseason projections are from SportsLine; expanded standings may also be seen right here)
| N.Y. Yankees (clinched AL East) | 99 | 62 | — | 100.0% |
| Toronto (clinched WC spot) | 91 | 69 | 7.5 | 100.0% |
| Tampa Bay (clinched WC Spot) | 86 | 75 | 13.0 | 100.0% |
| Baltimore (eradicated) | 82 | 78 | 16.5 | 0.0% |
| Boston (eradicated) | 77 | 84 | 22.0 | 0.0% |
| Cleveland (clinched AL Central) | 91 | 70 | — | 100.0% |
| Chi. White Sox (eradicated) | 81 | 80 | 10.0 | 0.0% |
| Minnesota (eradicated) | 77 | 84 | 14.0 | 0.0% |
| Detroit (eradicated) | 66 | 95 | 25.0 | 0.0% |
| Kansas City (eradicated) | 65 | 96 | 26.0 | 0.0% |
| Houston (clinched AL West) | 105 | 56 | — | 100.0% |
| Seattle (clinched WC spot) | 89 | 72 | 16.0 | 100.0% |
| L.A. Angels (eradicated) | 73 | 88 | 31.0 | 0.0% |
| Texas (eradicated) | 67 | 94 | 38.0 | 0.0% |
| Oakland (eradicated) | 59 | 102 | 46.0 | 0.0% |
| Atlanta (clinched NL East) | 101 | 60 | — | 100.0% |
| N.Y. Mets (clinched playoff berth) | 100 | 61 | 1.0 | 100.0% |
| Philadelphia (clinched playoff berth) | 87 | 74 | 14.0 | 100.0% |
| Miami (eradicated) | 68 | 93 | 33.0 | 0.0% |
| Washington (eradicated) | 55 | 106 | 46.0 | 0.0% |
| St. Louis (clinched NL Central) | 93 | 68 | — | 100.0% |
| Milwaukee (eradicated) | 86 | 75 | 7.0 | 0.0% |
| Chi. Cubs (eradicated) | 73 | 88 | 20.0 | 0.0% |
| Cincinnati (eradicated) | 62 | 99 | 31.0 | 0.0% |
| Pittsburgh (eradicated) | 61 | 100 | 32.0 | 0.0% |
| L.A. Dodgers (clinched NL West) | 110 | 51 | — | 100.0% |
| San Diego (clinched playoff berth) | 89 | 72 | 21.0 | 100.0% |
| San Francisco (eradicated) | 80 | 81 | 30.0 | 0.0% |
| Arizona (eradicated) | 73 | 88 | 37.0 | 0.0% |
| Colorado (eradicated) | 68 | 93 | 42.0 | 0.0% |
MLB wild-card standings
| AL WILD CARD | W | L | WCGB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto (clinched most sensible WC spot) | 91 | 69 | +5.5 |
| Seattle (clinched 2d WC spot) | 89 | 72 | +3.0 |
| Tampa Bay (clinched 3rd WC spot) | 86 | 75 | — |
| NL WILD CARD | W | L | WCGB |
|---|---|---|---|
| N.Y. Mets (clinched most sensible WC spot) | 100 | 61 | +13.0 |
| San Diego (clinched 2d WC spot) | 89 | 72 | +2.0 |
| Philadelphia (clinched 3rd WC spot) | 87 | 74 | — |