Since 1961, the Baltiore Orioles and every other major league team have played a 162-game schedule each year. When new commissioner Rob Manfred took over this past season, he almost immediately started throwing ideas out there in terms of things that he might change in the sport. At one point along the way, one of those ideas was moving back to a 154-game schedule. Uh, really?!
We hear about leagues thinking of tweaking their schedules all the time. However norally it’s in the opposite direction; as an example, the NFL has long flirted with the idea of going to 18 games.