Should the Rays, Jays, and Mariners race to the bottom?

We knew the new baseball playoff system, with the addition of a third wildcard team, would create quirks. In a vacuum, it works because all division winners are considered equal. But in reality, where people play the games, they very much are not. Teams are hard to judge on just their record, because each division winner plays such different schedules (something that will be partially rectified next season with a more…