
This is how the regular season will get spun through the blender: What? How even? All right, here’s how even. The challenge: Not just taking “canceled” games and un-canceling them, but fitting them into a puzzle that included an expanded postseason - yet without changing the dates of the World Series. How can baseball still play all 162 games?įrom the way it was described to us, this took a spectacular exhibition of heavy lifting from baseball’s scheduling gurus, led by MLB’s chief operations and strategy officer, Chris Marinak.

Maybe you live in a National League city, and you’ve always wanted to see that dude they call Ohtani.

Maybe you’re one of those people who had a ticket for Opening Day - back in simpler times, when it was still scheduled for March 31.
