March…it comes in like a lion and goes out with regular season baseball. That’s right, the Cubs will start playing in games that count in 25 days when they take on the Brewers at Miller Park. Yu Darvish, who started against Milwaukee yesterday, will likely take the bump that day, too.
If you feel like March 26 is a little premature for baseball, you’re not alone. Other than games that kick off the season in foreign countries, this is the earliest an MLB season has ever started. I can neither confirm nor deny that this is the first step in Rob Manfred’s master plan to actually push the starting date back to mid-April.