Will there be baseball in 2020? If so, how many games? When would the season begin? How would they cram a large number of games into a condensed schedule? What would the playoffs look like? All of these questions are being bounced off haphazardly set-up white boards within the homes of teleworking executives across baseball.
One idea that has been floated, according to Jon Heyman, is an expanded playoff format that would increase the number of playoff teams from ten to fourteen. Major League Baseball has been looking to expand the playoffs under a proposal they submitted to the Players Association earlier in the year.