The playoff slate begins with Game 1 of all four Wild Card Series on Tuesday, while the teams with byes — the Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays, Philadelphia Phillies and Seattle Mariners — await the Division Series starting in their home city Saturday.

Major League Baseball today announced the Major League Umpires who have been assigned to the 2025 Wild Card Series. The four Wild Card Series crew chiefs will be Vic Carapazza, Dan Iassogna, Alfonso Márquez and Todd Tichenor.

Major League Baseball teams competing in the wild card round will announce their playoff rosters Tuesday and the rest of the teams will announce their rosters before the division round. Among those rosters could be numerous former SeaWolves as 12 teams chase a World Series championship.

The Dodgers will face the Cincinnati Reds in a National League wild-card series beginning Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, needing 13 victories for the first back-to-back World Series championships in franchise history.

W e have our field of 12 Major League Baseball playoff teams for the 2025 battle for the World Series trophy. If the regular season was any indication, we're in for an incredibly chaotic postseason, one which hopefully includes our first World Series Game 7 since 2019.