Among the various factors complicating the 2020 MLB season, the most important is also the simplest: Keeping players healthy. That’s always been the case when it comes to injury prevention, which takes on its own new wrinkles with the halting nature of the schedule, but throw in the mitigation of COVID-19 and things really get hairy.
Two teams have already missed more than a week of action and will somehow have to try to play more games than there are days left in the season. And that’s assuming there are no other outbreaks, whether it’s within their own organizations or those against whom they’ll be playing the rest of the way.