- Regular season lasts for 162 games
- Mostly intraleague, with shorter stretches of interleague (i.e., National vs. American) played in the middle third of the season
- Postseason is a tournament between the winners from each division along with the two teams having the next-highest winning percentages, which are called the wild card teams.
- The two wild card teams play each other, and then the winner faces the top team in the division in a best-of-five series.
- The second and third-ranked teams from that division face each other in the same best-of-five series format.