Just hours before the start of the 2020 regular season, the Major League Baseball Players Association approved an agreement with MLB to expand its postseason this year, according to ESPN's Marly Rivera.
According to the New York Post's Joel Sherman, the expansion will increase the postseason from 10 teams to 16 teams.
Per ESPN, the agreement, which is just for this season, is now subject to ratification by the league's owners.
Throughout the negotiations this spring that led to the eventual July 23 start date, the league had proposed expanding the postseason field to 16 teams, though the eventual deal called for a standard postseason format in both field size and series length.