When you’re measuring something, scale always matters. So for anyone sizing up the challenge that lies ahead for Major League Baseball, a pennant chase that begins Thursday after a nearly four-month delay, that’s something to keep in mind.
At 60 games, this 2020 season will look and feel more like a sprint than a marathon. Yet as Tigers general manager Al Avila notes, with the coronavirus pandemic still raging across the United States on Opening Day and no real precedent for what the league is attempting to do here, “It is gonna be a small miracle if we get through this.