The Giants gave Farhan Zaidi the keys to the kingdom in large part because they believed he could find creative ways to shorten the rebuild process. They might have just lucked into a much quicker path back to the postseason.
It's been a wild day on Baseball Twitter, with an expectation that an agreement could come soon on a return to the field. In the midst of it, Bob Nightengale of USA Today dropped the nugget that a shortened season -- somewhere in the 60-game range -- will include an expanded postseason field of 16 teams.