the bye has to be eliminated
you can’t have baseball teams, used to playing almost every day for 6 months, just sit around for a week going stone-cold
a week-long bye works in football, they’re used to playing once a week, but it doesn’t work in baseball
Sounds good. That way, those teams with the highest payrolls can be eliminated in just 2 games.
Baseball is the greatest equalizer sport there is. Teams get on a roll, teams get in slumps. When talented teams are in slumps, lesser teams can roll them. Pitchers equalize everything. When they're in the zone, lights out.
The only thing is it should be enough time off, to allow the higher-seeded team to set their rotation.