With Major League Baseball set to play 60 games this season, with Opening Day coming on July 23rd or 24th, now we can shift to: What’s the schedule going to look like?
Luckily, Jayson Stark of the Athletic has those answers HERE:
*Who plays whom – and how often?
*What teams have the easiest travel – and hardest?
*How will interleague play work?
*What happened to the doubleheaders?
*Position players back on the mound!Here's what we know about the schedule – and other new wrinkles!https://t.co/jtMCwy7iaK
— Jayson Stark (@jaysonst) June 24, 2020
“In an effort to minimize travel as much as possible, teams will play all 60 games only against their own division and the corresponding interleague division. Those 60 games will be laid out this way:
• VERSUS OWN DIVISION: Every team will play 10 games apiece against each of the other four teams in its division, for a total of 40 games. Those games would largely be broken down into three-game and two-game series.
• VERSUS INTERLEAGUE DIVISION: Each club will play a total of 20 games against the corresponding interleague division (i.e., East versus East, Central versus Central, West versus West). Six of those games would be against a team’s interleague “rival” (Yankees-Mets, Cubs-White Sox, etc.). The breakdown of the other 14 games has yet to be finalized, but is expected to involve each team playing two interleague opponents three times apiece and the other two clubs four times apiece.”
What’s good about the Red Sox schedule is the travel, they don’t have to move much and never leave the Eastern Time Zone. What’s horrible is they face four playoff teams from last year (Braves, Nationals, Yankees, Rays) which absolutely could impact their ability to win games.
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