

What? How even? All right, here’s how even. The challenge: Not just taking “canceled” games and un-canceling them, but fitting them into a puzzle that included an expanded postseason - yet without changing the dates of the World Series. How can baseball still play all 162 games?įrom the way it was described to us, this took a spectacular exhibition of heavy lifting from baseball’s scheduling gurus, led by MLB’s chief operations and strategy officer, Chris Marinak.

And then there’s 2023, when the format for all baseball scheduling will change dramatically.And the all-new, expanded 2022 postseason schedule.And the brand new 2022 spring training schedule.We’re here to answer every darned question you have about the schedule - even the questions you didn’t know you’d need to ask. Well, if you’re somebody like that, this is the story for you. Maybe you just heard a certain commissioner of baseball say last week that it was now impossible for the sport to still play a 162-game season - and then learned this week that it was magically possible after all. Maybe you live in a National League city, and you’ve always wanted to see that dude they call Ohtani. Maybe you’re one of those people who had a ticket for Opening Day - back in simpler times, when it was still scheduled for March 31.
