Welcome to modern American sports where too many teams make the playoffs. Baseball is now no different. You're just probably going to see a lot of playoff losses for your teams when more than half the league or close to half the league gets in.
If you don't, you either have a dynasty of a team, or more likely just a god awful team. You would probably not want to trade places with the Timberwolves, or Mariners, or Lions over the last 15 years or so.