For some totally non-baseball related reason, MLB decided to give teams up to four days off leading into the ALDS, which is 5 straight games. This will create interesting challenges, as our friends at the official hub of the Astros already noted. Compare this to last year, where a potential fifth game would be sandwiched by days off after games 2 and 4. None of that this time. Let’s ponder what it means...
The piggybacking of Round 1? Forget about it, as Cristian Javier and Framber Valdez will need to start at some point in the series.