A couple weeks ago, I took a look at the records the Cardinals were on-pace to break - or not break - during this shortened bizarro season. Of course 2020 is a massive outlier, and you might assume that every counting stat would be well off any historical precedent. But baseball is weird and it changes more than we sometimes acknowledge, so let’s look at where records were and were not broken.
Games and Wins
Despite the 60-game schedule, the Cardinals only played 58, because the league’s official position on the other two was: F*ck it.