PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz., Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said Tuesday there will be no playoff format changes or expanded use of instant replays in the 2011 season.
Selig told MLB.com before a general managers' meeting in Arizona that it's too late to resolve the issues in time for the upcoming season.
The 2011 season has an early start -- March 31, the first time a baseball season will kick off before April since 2008 -- and Selig said the date is coming up too quickly to make such changes now.
But he added that discussion about the playoff format and more use of replay by umpires will be held at the meetings.
General managers had seemed to reach broad agreement in November that two more teams should be added to major league baseball's wild-card round. Still undecided, however, is the length of round and how it would be integrated into the post-season schedule.
