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The Mad Dog has ripped his media colleagues for, as he sees it, taking the players' side.

Max Scherzer favors a radical reworking of the playoffs, one that would have the higher seed in the first round of a 14-team postseason start off a best-of-five series with a 1-0 lead.

Max Scherzer, a member of the union's eight-man executive committee, says the players could be in favor of radical changes to Major League Baseball's playoff format if the two sides agree to expand the field to 14 teams.

Amid the uncertainty of 2022, multiple MLB teams have inquired with the league about the possibility of canceling the Rule 5 draft for this season, sources told ESPN's Kiley McDaniel and Jeff Passan.