Opinion

The Houston Astros head to the Bronx to face the New York Yankees in the American League Wild Card Game on Tuesday night.

What do the Yankees need to do to win? Will Dallas Keuchel be able to step up on the road?

One American League Division Series matchup is set, as the Toronto Blue Jays will be facing the Texas Rangers with a place in the American League Championship Series hanging in the balance.

Below, we'll take a look at the schedule and preview the matchup.

Schedule

Preview

It took exactly 162 games to get here, but the matchup for the 2015 American League Wild Card Game is set. The Houston Astros will visit the New York Yankees for a do-or-die showdown on Tuesday (8:05 p.m. ET on ESPN) with a trip to the division series on the line.

The Yankees (87-75) haven't been to the playoffs since 2012, while the Astros (86-76) last went to the dance in 2005. 

World Series dreams are still alive and well for 10 different postseason teams across Major League Baseball, but the rest of the league has already turned its attention toward what promises to be a busy offseason.

The bracket is set and the 10 teams have secured their places in the 2015 MLB playoffs.

This year's field has a great mix of the usual suspects—the New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers—and some teams making their long-awaited returns to the postseason—the Toronto Blue Jays, New York Mets, Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros.

The 2015 MLB postseason is finally here. Some players will go on to make a name for themselves and etch their names into baseball history books.

Which players will have memorable postseasons? Who will have the defining moments of their careers?

1. Why should you send a greeting card to Canada?

Welcome back, Canada! The Toronto Blue Jays end their 22-year postseason drought, longest in the majors, when they host the Texas Rangers in a division series. Last time a postseason game was played in Canada, Joe Carter was floating around as if the SkyDome (that's what they called it back then, really) was the moon and there was no gravity.

The MLB regular season has come to a close, leaving some intriguing questions going into the postseason.

Is Gerrit Cole ready to guide the Pittsburgh Pirates on a deep run? Will Jake Arrieta be able to match his current form in the playoffs?

Watch as Stephen Nelson joins MLB on TBS analysts Dusty Baker, Gary Sheffield and Pedro Martinez to review the burning questions about baseball's postseason in the video above.

They say everything is bigger in Texas. This year, that includes the number of teams heading into the MLB playoffs.

Although MLB free agency remains some months away, plenty of fans are already wondering where some of the top players on the market could land.

The free-agent market has become somewhat diluted overall in recent years, with smaller-market teams more able to lock up their talented homegrown stars. But fear not, for general managers will spend hundreds of millions of dollars this offseason in the hopes of becoming or remaining a World Series contender, whatever the case may be.