2020 MLB Season Baseball • Page 408

No expanded playoffs!! Woot woot (at least I think that's what I heard)

 

fucking dumb

 

So teams only play same division + opposite league’s divisional counterpart? Cubs play NL & AL Central, that’s it?

 

Lol zero chance they will be able to finish a full 60 game season

imagine Yelich or Trout or Kershaw getting COVID - teams lose them for 1/6 of the season immediately

 

Playing only intra division teams for the AL West is laughable

 

The only thing I cared about was seeing Houston get booed

Thanks Covid

 

Until I see a batter in the batters box in a game that matters... baseball is NOT back.

 

I don't even understand what spring training is going to be. Just regular series? Too far from other teams to travel every day

 

I assume a ton of intrasquad games?

 

Collin McHugh confronts a strange possibility for the 2020 season: Will he be paying the Red Sox while pitching for them?

McHugh has one of the few contracts in baseball that is subject to such a perverse hypothetical in the wake of Major League Baseball’s imposition of a 60-game schedule.

The righthander, coming off a right elbow injury, signed a one-year, $600,000 guaranteed deal with the Red Sox during spring training.

Such a guarantee was for relatively little more than the major league minimum of $563,500. But the fact that it was a guaranteed deal — with incentives based on health that could increase its value — positioned McHugh to receive a $286,500 advance on his salary under the terms of the March agreement between MLB and the Players Association, in which MLB owners advanced players $170 million

Players with guaranteed deals got a $286,500 advance; those with split contracts that would pay them at least $150,000 for their minor league service got a $60,000 advance; those with split contracts with a minor league salary between $91,801 and $149,999 received a $30,000 advance; and those 40-man-roster members in line to receive $91,800 or less received a $16,500 advance.

McHugh qualified for the largest advance. Yet with the season now reduced to 60 games, players will receive salaries of just 37 percent of what they would have gotten for a full schedule. For McHugh, that means a salary of $222,222 — or about $64,000 less than he already received from the advance.

So, in theory, while McHugh’s teammates could soon start collecting paychecks, he could get an invoice from the club.

 

No throwing inside please haha

 

Blackmon and two other Rockies have covid, I don't see this whole 7/1 "summer" training start date meaning much

 

Well it sounds like teams can carry 60 players with a whole taxi squad available so they're certainly prepared for something

I'm still far from optimistic about a season bring completed though, we'll see

Imagine if a whole team goes down and it's just their AAA squad for weeks

If a championship happens there will be 29 other teams like "this season doesn't count" and I mean it kinda wouldn't lol

 

I'm excited to play some fantasy baseball again, but absolutely nothing about this 60 game plan excites me at all. i honestly wonder how many games ill end up watching if the NBA return ends up being as successful as I think it will be.

 

Nbd I’m used to it.

 

Haha this is true. What did I forget the last two years

 

That can’t be real

 

That's really the roof??