The latest twist in MLB’s 2020 fate came Monday, with ESPN reporting that owners are proposing a season somewhere in the realm of 50 games and would pay players full prorated salary shares.
But at what point is a season not a legitimate season? If a 50-game schedule comes to fruition, we are at that point.
Fifty games would be 31% of a normal 162-game regular season. Aside from all the chirping by players over the financial piece of a shortened season — no doubt an ugly look amid a global pandemic, even if the owners aren’t in the right, either — a 50-game season would be a competitive farce.