2020 MLB Season: Maybe a 50-games is what baseball needs

In all honesty, a shortened 2020 MLB season will bring more excitement.

It’s the go-to for critics of MLB: “the season is too long!”. From late-March all the way to the very end of September, the MLB season can sometimes seem like a neverending marathon, just to suddenly end less than a month later following the World Series.

Think of how much more exciting the regular season could be if there were only 50 games. Instead of a drawn-out marathon, for once in our lifetime the MLB season would be like a quarter-mile drag race, forcing teams to go all out from start to finish. Every victory would feel so much more significant, as would ever loss as well.

Let’s be real, a shortened 2020 MLB season would also be safer.

MLB has been suspended since mid-March, meaning pitchers haven’t faced hitters, and vice versa, in two in a half months; and that’s not even considering the fact that the little bit of time on the field only lasted a few weeks. Instead of trying to compress an 82 or 114-game season into two or three months — if the league wants to avoid a season stretching to Thanksgiving — perhaps it would be wiser to account for the aforementioned time off and allow for an appropriate amount of days off during the season?

Instead of having oversized rosters and another three-week or month-long spring training — that just forces the season to be more rushed altogether — how about providing teams with multiple off-days each week. With a 50-game season, players won’t have to play every day, keeping them much more fresh throughout the year. Less injuries is always better!