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At this point the question is not "Will Sale be ready for opening day?", but "Will opening day be ready for Sale?"
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As soon as spring training was cancelled the Red Sox released their media guide
http://pressroom.redsox.com/GetFile...ides/2020/2020 Boston Red Sox Media Guide.pdf
http://pressroom.redsox.com/GetFile...ides/2020/2020 Boston Red Sox Media Guide.pdf
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When it comes to figuring out what the 2020 Major League Baseball season will look like it is impossible to predict specifics. But according to a report in The Athletic, MLB is proceeding with the notion that we won't see real games until May at the earliest.
In the piece written by Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich, it states:
A day after he chose to delay the start of the season, commissioner Rob Manfred met with the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, Tony Clark, and other top officials in Arizona. The list of issues the sides must resolve is long, with topics ranging from service time and contract bonuses to practical matters of scheduling. At this point, industry sources believe it is unlikely the season will begin before May, which is dependent, of course, on the containment of the virus.
In the piece written by Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich, it states:
A day after he chose to delay the start of the season, commissioner Rob Manfred met with the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, Tony Clark, and other top officials in Arizona. The list of issues the sides must resolve is long, with topics ranging from service time and contract bonuses to practical matters of scheduling. At this point, industry sources believe it is unlikely the season will begin before May, which is dependent, of course, on the containment of the virus.
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It's going to be interesting to see how they structure what's left of the season. I think we can reasonably assume that coronapanic will be over by then - May at earliest, August seems to be a worst case scenario. Let's say late May/early June.
So then you have slightly over half a year, say ninety to a hundred games. Consider it like a strike year with a condensed schedule. How do they reconfigure that? The easy solution would be to eliminate interleague. 10 games against divisional opponents for 40, then 6 against each of the other 10 teams in the league for 60....except with the Astros going to the AL and 15-teams in each league now means it's not possible to do that without having a team take an off-day or even off-series every week.
So I guess possible solutions would be to retain some limited interleague, then condense the amount of games against other divisions, so like AL East only plays road series against AL Central opponents and AL West going to AL East, AL Central going to West, etc. Or one of the teams volunteers to switch leagues for one year only, but that messes up the math too. Or they scrap divisions altogether and just play 3 games against everyone, not realistic.
Seems like it'll be a fun mathematical and geographic exercise though.
I figure one of two things happens:
1. Manfred uses this as an opportunity to unilaterally impose the DH on both leagues and restructures divisions to his geographical liking in an attempt to phase out the two leagues
2. They just continue the schedule as it was scheduled starting from the point where it's safe to start playing and consider everything before it just cancelled. If teams end the year with uneven records or an imbalanced schedule, that's just tough titties because the world has more important things to deal with than whether the Mets missed a divisional title by a game because they had to play the Yankees 6 times and the Nats got the Orioles.
So then you have slightly over half a year, say ninety to a hundred games. Consider it like a strike year with a condensed schedule. How do they reconfigure that? The easy solution would be to eliminate interleague. 10 games against divisional opponents for 40, then 6 against each of the other 10 teams in the league for 60....except with the Astros going to the AL and 15-teams in each league now means it's not possible to do that without having a team take an off-day or even off-series every week.
So I guess possible solutions would be to retain some limited interleague, then condense the amount of games against other divisions, so like AL East only plays road series against AL Central opponents and AL West going to AL East, AL Central going to West, etc. Or one of the teams volunteers to switch leagues for one year only, but that messes up the math too. Or they scrap divisions altogether and just play 3 games against everyone, not realistic.
Seems like it'll be a fun mathematical and geographic exercise though.
I figure one of two things happens:
1. Manfred uses this as an opportunity to unilaterally impose the DH on both leagues and restructures divisions to his geographical liking in an attempt to phase out the two leagues
2. They just continue the schedule as it was scheduled starting from the point where it's safe to start playing and consider everything before it just cancelled. If teams end the year with uneven records or an imbalanced schedule, that's just tough titties because the world has more important things to deal with than whether the Mets missed a divisional title by a game because they had to play the Yankees 6 times and the Nats got the Orioles.
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My great uncle was a HS and college sports junkie.
He lived in Connecticut when Valentine was in HS and said he was the best HS athlete he ever saw in each of FB, Hoops and baseball.
He later lived in Ohio and saw Desmond Howard and some other prominent guys I can’t remember.
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I always thought geographic realignment would be great for MLB Philly competing with Boston/NYY in a pennant race would be super exciting. MLB needs a lot more radical change like that.
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I don't want to take credit for the idea, and I actually don't want that to happen. I like the old leagues just fine.
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Kinda makes you think they made the right call in getting what they could for Mookie rather than hanging on to him for a desperate attempt at a Wild Card birth.
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