When you scan the daily headlines in baseball these days, you can almost overlook the fact that there are games actually being played. The irony of that is that in the competitive context of the 2020 campaign, each of those games means more, on average, than in any season that has come before.
You've heard the multiplier 2.7 mentioned time and again since MLB landed on a 60-game schedule in this pandemic-ravaged season. That's how much each game is worth in relation to a normal 162-game season. Through Monday, the most games any one team has played is 11, yet the schedule is already more than 15% complete.