The baseball season starts April 1, about six weeks after pitchers and catchers report to spring training. This will be the first regular season since MLB played just 60 games last summer amid the coronavirus pandemic. The league will hold a normal schedule this year, with all 30 teams playing 162 games and holding 52 series. The postseason will start Oct. 3, and the World Series will begin a week later.
The 2021 schedule will include interleague play and divisional matchups, with the AL East facing the NL East, the NL West meeting the AL Central and the NL West going head-to-head with the AL Central. Also, the New York Yankees and Mets will face off at Citi Field on September 10, a day after the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
A full season could lead to more paying fans in the stands, something that would benefit both the owners and players. But a prolonged work stoppage would do more harm than good for the sport, which is lagging behind the NFL and NBA in total audiences.
It is possible that the league will ask its clubs to delay the start of their seasons, as it did in the early days of the pandemic. But Commissioner Rob Manfred, who has the power to cancel or shut down the game under the terms of the March 26 deal struck with the union, is reluctant to do so now that vaccines have started to be distributed and the outbreak appears to be subsiding.
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