{"id":1029164,"date":"2020-07-23T17:10:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T21:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1029164"},"modified":"2020-07-23T17:10:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T21:10:14","slug":"ap-source-mlb-players-agree-to-expand-playoffs-to-16-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1029164","title":{"rendered":"AP source: MLB, players agree to expand playoffs to 16 teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-source-mlb-players-agree-to-expand-playoffs-to-16-teams\/19201622\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/baseball\/mlb\/2020\/07\/23\/19201297\/5f19c2f712aa9-media_901a1484094d4edd8d8abe6b285b1a73-DMID1-5nlqgt6s9-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Nationals_Baseball_12710\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Major League Baseball and the players&#8217; union agreed Thursday to expand the playoffs from 10 teams to 16 for the pandemic-delayed season, a person familiar with the deal said, a decision that makes it likely teams with losing records will reach the postseason. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-source-mlb-players-agree-to-expand-playoffs-to-16-teams\/19201622\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-source-mlb-players-agree-to-expand-playoffs-to-16-teams\/19201622\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"AP source: MLB, players agree to expand playoffs to 16 teams\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball and the players&#8217; union agreed Thursday to expand the playoffs from 10 teams to 16 for the pandemic-delayed season, a person familiar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}