"Bud Selig may be looking forward to an expanded playoff system in baseball next season, but the Yankees are skeptical about the potential changes.

The commissioner said this week that MLB is likely to add a wild-card team to each league, bringing the total number of playoff teams to 10 each season.

Unlike the current system, which sees the lone wild-card winner in each league take on a division winner in a best-of-five division series, the new format would likely pit the two wild-card winners against each other in a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the division series.

That would mean a five- or six-day layoff for the six division winners, an extended break that teams never see during the course of the six-month regular season.

"For a team like us, I don't like it," Mark Teixeira said. "We battle all year long in a very tough division; if you win the division and have to have five or six days off before the start of the playoffs, or you win the wild card and still have to play another one- or three-game series just to get into the playoffs, it doesn't make much sense."

Joe Girardi called potential playoff expansion "interesting," although he made it clear that adding a five- or six-day layoff between the end of the season and the start of the playoffs would be unfair for division winners.

"My thought is if you're one of those two wild-card teams that's going to play to see who plays one of the division winners, it's a three-game series that starts the day after the season, then the fourth day you go and play whoever," Girardi said. "It's a reward for the teams that won the division, and you're not penalizing them in a sense by having them sit out too long.""