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MLB News: Due to the coronavirus, what happens if all teams don’t play 60 games?

For a season filled with unknowns, MLB will have many decisions to make. One is when and if the coronavirus affects too many teams, when will it be time to shut down the season? What do we do if all teams don’t complete all the games in a 2020 shortened season? These are just a few of the decisions that will have to be made.

Buster Olney of ESPN has an answer to that last question:

“If MLB continues to try to move forward with games — and that is the expectation with a lot of teams — they shouldn’t worry about the ‘integrity’ of a 60-game schedule.