MLB Imposes 60 Game Season, Spring Training 2.0 Starts in 7 Days

[SouthSideRyan]

 

Lol

 

[Bertz]

Do we know, assuming it happens, the playoff schedule? I know the regular season ends 9/27, but not sure how this new first round works. Is it right away on Monday?

 

Basically my PTO is use it or lose it, and since I can't actually travel I want to take time during that period where there's weekday playoff baseball. Under the old format 9/29-9/30 would be the wildcard games at night, with 10/2 and 10/5 being the potential four game days. But under this format should I assume that entire week is going to be packed with games?

[Andy]

Do we know, assuming it happens, the playoff schedule? I know the regular season ends 9/27, but not sure how this new first round works. Is it right away on Monday?

 

Basically my PTO is use it or lose it, and since I can't actually travel I want to take time during that period where there's weekday playoff baseball. Under the old format 9/29-9/30 would be the wildcard games at night, with 10/2 and 10/5 being the potential four game days. But under this format should I assume that entire week is going to be packed with games?

They haven't released the schedule, but assuming there is a playoffs, yes, you should assume the entire week will be packed with games, probably Tuesday-Thursday.

[Cubswin11]

Do we know, assuming it happens, the playoff schedule? I know the regular season ends 9/27, but not sure how this new first round works. Is it right away on Monday?

 

Basically my PTO is use it or lose it, and since I can't actually travel I want to take time during that period where there's weekday playoff baseball. Under the old format 9/29-9/30 would be the wildcard games at night, with 10/2 and 10/5 being the potential four game days. But under this format should I assume that entire week is going to be packed with games?

Yeah I’d assume the 29th is the start (Everyone gets the 28th off to travel if needed). There’s no tiebreaker games this year either so that can’t delay it and since the first round is best of 3 and better record team gets home field for all 3 there shouldn’t be off days so 3-4 straight days of games potentially.

[soccer10k]

Do we know, assuming it happens, the playoff schedule? I know the regular season ends 9/27, but not sure how this new first round works. Is it right away on Monday?

 

Basically my PTO is use it or lose it, and since I can't actually travel I want to take time during that period where there's weekday playoff baseball. Under the old format 9/29-9/30 would be the wildcard games at night, with 10/2 and 10/5 being the potential four game days. But under this format should I assume that entire week is going to be packed with games?

Yeah I’d assume the 29th is the start (Everyone gets the 28th off to travel if needed). There’s no tiebreaker games this year either so that can’t delay it and since the first round is best of 3 and better record team gets home field for all 3 there shouldn’t be off days so 3-4 straight days of games potentially.

 

It could be Wednesday the 30th also. They always leave the Monday blank for any make up games - which is when the Cards might have to make up a game or two against Detroit - and they won’t know about those until the last minute. Giving them Tuesday off also allows for makeup games Monday followed by a tiebreaker game on Tuesday if it involves the same team that plays Monday.

 

They’ll probably wait a while and stagger the series. That way they could schedule series that aren’t likely to require tiebreaker games on Tuesday and ones that might on Wednesday.

[Cubswin11]

Do we know, assuming it happens, the playoff schedule? I know the regular season ends 9/27, but not sure how this new first round works. Is it right away on Monday?

 

Basically my PTO is use it or lose it, and since I can't actually travel I want to take time during that period where there's weekday playoff baseball. Under the old format 9/29-9/30 would be the wildcard games at night, with 10/2 and 10/5 being the potential four game days. But under this format should I assume that entire week is going to be packed with games?

Yeah I’d assume the 29th is the start (Everyone gets the 28th off to travel if needed). There’s no tiebreaker games this year either so that can’t delay it and since the first round is best of 3 and better record team gets home field for all 3 there shouldn’t be off days so 3-4 straight days of games potentially.

 

It could be Wednesday the 30th also. They always leave the Monday blank for any make up games - which is when the Cards might have to make up a game or two against Detroit - and they won’t know about those until the last minute. Giving them Tuesday off also allows for makeup games Monday followed by a tiebreaker game on Tuesday if it involves the same team that plays Monday.

 

They’ll probably wait a while and stagger the series. That way they could schedule series that aren’t likely to require tiebreaker games on Tuesday and ones that might on Wednesday.

I swear I read that they aren’t doing tiebreaker games in order to have a more set schedule/avoid having like 5 tiebreaker games. They’re going off H2H, win % in division, etc. to settle tiebreakers. But yeah the 30th could be the start for some extra makeup. Doubt it’s later than that.

[Bertz]

That's really helpful. That's mostly what I had assumed, but it hadn't yet occurred to me that there are very unlikely to be games on 9/28. I guess the remaining question is if/how long the break is between the WC round and the DS. But I'll be probably do 9/29-10/5 figure that covers me for everything except maybe the 4th day of the DS.

[soccer10k]

Yeah I’d assume the 29th is the start (Everyone gets the 28th off to travel if needed). There’s no tiebreaker games this year either so that can’t delay it and since the first round is best of 3 and better record team gets home field for all 3 there shouldn’t be off days so 3-4 straight days of games potentially.

 

It could be Wednesday the 30th also. They always leave the Monday blank for any make up games - which is when the Cards might have to make up a game or two against Detroit - and they won’t know about those until the last minute. Giving them Tuesday off also allows for makeup games Monday followed by a tiebreaker game on Tuesday if it involves the same team that plays Monday.

 

They’ll probably wait a while and stagger the series. That way they could schedule series that aren’t likely to require tiebreaker games on Tuesday and ones that might on Wednesday.

I swear I read that they aren’t doing tiebreaker games in order to have a more set schedule/avoid having like 5 tiebreaker games. They’re going off H2H, win % in division, etc. to settle tiebreakers. But yeah the 30th could be the start for some extra makeup. Doubt it’s later than that.

 

I hadn’t heard that either way so you might be right on the no tiebreaking games thing.