Paul Hoynes of Cleveland.com published a story outlining former Cleveland Indians star Albert Belle’s proposed format for the 2020 MLB season.
With so much uncertainty surrounding when–or if–the season will start, there is an equal amount of uncertainty as to what the schedule could look like.
The league would like to play as many games as possible in order to minimize revenue losses. The players would like to play as many games as possible because of how dependent salaries are on large sample sizes of statistics and performance.
Even though both sides are in agreement on the idea of manufacturing a semi-normal season, it’s not at all unrealistic to speculate that they’re going to have to make some concessions in that regard.