MLB to keep rosters at 28 players

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty ImagesThe size of rosters has been a huge talking point in baseball over the last year or so. For many years, MLB teams were allowed 25 players on the active roster, with that expanding to 40 on Sept. 1.

There was a pretty big change planned for 2020, before the world did ... well, you’re aware of everything that’s happened in the last six months. Rosters would instead expand to 26 players, but they would be capped at 28 for the late season call-ups.

And then the coronavirus hit, and MLB and the Players Association had to adjust on the fly to find roster rules that would accommodate a season unlike any other. The solution: start with 30 players, trim down to 28…