Day 16

Fresh Start_16: Dying a slow painful death?
What I am talking about is the amount of games that the Major League Baseball players play in a season. Starting off in Spring Training, every team plays thirty-three games as a warm up. After all of the Cactus or Grapefruit leagues get their bats and arms ready for the long haul of the regular season. Next is the marathon of the one hundred and sixty-two game season, and for some the playoffs in October. The “Burning Question” (shout out to Nick) is: Is the baseball season too long? And is it causing more injuries?
I have to agree with the masses and go along with the idea that the Major League season is too long. Why I do like watching the season and the ups and downs of the marathon, I believe it would benefit the players and coaches to shorten the season by forty or fifty games. If you truly want to go to the extreme cut the season down to ninety-two games like it was back in the very beginning.
It will benefit the players who have had a lot of injuries i.e. the New York Mets this season and the Yankees of late. Unfortunately, this is New York bias but I feel that for players like Matt Harvey, Nathan Eovaldi, Jacob deGrom, and other around the league getting injured, most likely because of the number of games. Now I am not one for pitch counts or innings limits, but what this could do for pitchers is allow them to throw more innings and more pitches to make the game play like when Bob Gibson and Tom Seaver played back in the day. This will also allow baserunners and all players to play like we haven’t seen in a long time. Spring Training will mean more to the players with the shorten season.
For star pitchers it will allow them to be more dominant and throw more shutouts and better Cy Young races. It will allow guys like Jarod Dyson, Brett Gardner, Jose Reyes, and others to run wild on catchers with the less games, and stolen base attempts will go up. If you are an analytical type of person it will also better the data that teams’ information that they collect, due to the fact that the experts will have less time to collect that data and make it more detailed. For the fans it will make going to the games and watching the games less of a “job” and more fun, because it will be easier to follow. This will also allow new fans to come into the game and enjoy the game like the rest of us. Now for the television companies that broadcast the games, it will bump up the amount of nationally televised games, possibly two or three games a season. I like this move more and more and think if commissioner Rob Manfred wants to make his staple on the game and significantly change the game for decades to come is to shorten the season. Just like Bud Selig adding the Wild Card team in 1995, Manfred could make his mark in the upcoming years.
Sources:(mlb.com, bleacherreport.com, espn.com)

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