You don’t have to talk about the idea of a short season for long before it comes up.
While most baseball fans are craving baseball of any kind as we sit here in mid June without the national pastime, there are fans out there who are not at all jazzed about a campaign played during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that could feature as few as 48 regular-season games. But that’s looking more realistic by the day as Major League Baseball could choose to sidestep further financial negotiations with the players’ union and impose a short season that would still pay the players the prorated salaries they agreed to in March.