The taxi squad will be added for road trips and will have three players, one who must be a catcher. Steven Duggar and Andrew Suarez have been named so far. Chadwick Tromp would seem a likely candidate but he is apparently nursing a hamstring injury. So, we'll see if they bring a third guy along. There are four games in LA and then an off-day Monday, then six at home (SD and TEX) starting on the 28th.
Johnny Cueto gets the start tonight for the Giants. Clayton Kershaw will take the mound for the Dodgers. Game time is 7:08 p.m. PDT.
GO GIANTS!!
--M.C.
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A new playoff format for 2020:
The Major League Baseball Players Association has agreed to a plan to expand the playoffs to 16 teams for the 2020 season, sources have told ESPN's Marly Rivera.
A playoff expansion still needs the final approval of MLB owners, sources said.
All second-place teams in the six divisions would now qualify for the playoffs, sources said. Then the seventh and eighth teams in each league would be chosen by best record among other teams.
The first round of the playoffs in each league will be four three-game series with all games played at the higher seed's home stadium. The rest of the rounds will be their customary length: The two Division Series in each league will be five-game series, while the AL and NL Championship Series and World Series will be seven-game series.
Here's more:
If a 16-team format is adopted, it would include a televised postseason-seeding show in which top-seeded teams pick their first-round opponents, a source told ESPN's Buster Olney on Thursday.
Players will receive a $50 million pool that will be distributed after each round and could increase if fans are allowed in stadiums for the postseason.
(source: ESPN)
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