How short a baseball season is too short a baseball season?
Major League Baseball’s latest thought as negotiations over the fate of the 2020 campaign continue: a season of only 50-something games.
Though initially reported by ESPN’s Jeff Passan as an impending proposal from the league, it was later clarified by both Passan and MLB Network’s Jon Heyman that there is no intention to formally propose a shortened season but that the March agreement between the league and the union allows the league to mandate a shortened season if it sees fit.