Four More Days

MLB announced the schedule for 2018, and the season will start four days earlier:

Major League Baseball on Tuesday announced its schedule for next year, and it will feature its earliest season North American openers ever, across the board. On Thursday, March 29, all 30 teams will open action, including the Yankees at the Blue Jays in Toronto and the Mets at home against the Cardinals.

The pushed-up openers, which will give each team three or four extra off-days and create an extra weekend of action, results from the collective bargaining agreement on which the players and owners agreed last December. The players felt they needed more rest to handle the grind of the 162-game schedule, and in accordance with that, the two sides agreed to a complex formula by which getaway-day games will be played earlier (as long as they’re not nationally televised) when either team has to travel a long distance to its next game.

More importantly, more days to compete at Beat the Streak!

I also believe this should cut down on the need for double headers to make up games.

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