With both sides expressing support for adding two playoff teams in 2012, negotiators for baseball players and owners are considering having the new wild-card round be best-of-three or winner-take-all. Because longer series would push playoffs deeper into cold weather, the sides are not considering have the new first round be best-of-five of best-of-seven. "I would say we're moving to expanding the playoffs, but there's a myriad of details to work out," commissioner Bud Selig said Thursday at his annual meeting with The Associated Press Sports Editors. "Ten is a fair number." Since 1995, eight of the 30 baseball teams make the playoffs. In the NFL, 12 of 32 teams make the playoffs. In the NBA and NHL, 16 of 30 advance to the postseason. Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6404094
