It was hard to see this playing out any other way, given what happened the *last* time the Cardinals were shut down and then came back together in a week. Following additional positive tests on Thursday night, the Cardinals will be shut down again not just through this weekend’s would-have-been series against the Cubs, but also on into next week.
Another three to five days of shutdown for testing:
#STLCards players are being informed today that the team will not be assembling for at least 3-5 days and to get in workouts on their own, per source. Pittsburgh series likely will be canceled.
— Mark Saxon (@markasaxon) August 8, 2020
In a now perfect scenario where the Cardinals do not play again until August 13, a doubleheader against the Tigers which is a makeup from games already postponed, they will have been out of action for 14 days. And they’re supposed to just step right back onto the field and play not one but two games? Moreover, the Cardinals would at that point have to play 55 games in 46 days to fulfill all 60 games in the season. I just don’t see how that can happen.
I don’t know what the solution to this is beyond keeping them shut down, and deciding that the games not already rescheduled – the Cubs series, the upcoming Pirates series, and then those two games against the Tigers – are simply being cancelled, not postponed (I don’t think Saxon necessarily meant to use that word – but I suspect it’s going to be on the table after MLB convenes to figure this out).
So, at that point, maybe the Cardinals can play 52 games this year? The Cubs and Pirates play 57, and the Tigers play 58? Maybe you have the Cubs and Pirates play each other for an extra three games to make up for it? I don’t know if you could even make that work, but I’m just spitballing, as MLB will soon be doing. Of course, even if the Cardinals games are cancelled, do you really want to put any additional games on the Cubs or Pirates schedules (doubleheaders), knowing you might have to do that with OTHER rescheduled games in the future if more outbreaks happen?
If the league is absolutely dead set on getting every team to 60 games, then maybe they can squeeze in a few extra games for the Cardinals at the end of the season? Try to get in three extra games in two days? Of course, if you did that to the Cardinals and Cubs, then you’re pushing both of their seasons right up to the start of the postseason with no breathing room at all (assuming the postseason begins ASAP after the regular season, which is a fair bet right now).
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