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Thursday, March 28, 2024

I am sure you have seen several jokes about the cold weather from Colorado all the way to the East Coast.

Major League Baseball, however, isn’t laughing. The half dozen games already cancelled or postponed affect a lot more than just our fantasy hitters and pitchers missing a chance to contribute to our teams. With the American and National leagues realigned, several of the series being affected by Mother Nature’s spring tantrum will cause havoc with the MLB schedule later this summer.

Consider the Atlanta Braves visiting the Colorado Rockies for the only time this year. First, Monday’s game was cancelled, so the two teams were supposed to play a day/night doubleheader on Tuesday. As of this writing on Tuesday afternoon, they did get the first game in and now wait for evening and yes, colder temperatures. The problem is that the Braves are not scheduled to return to Denver for the rest of the season.

While they do travel to the West Coast in May to play the Giants and Diamondbacks, they can’t use their one off-day before returning to Atlanta because it would take away their only day off in the month of May. It would also exceed the number of straight days a team can play under the current bargaining agreement. The same is true when they play the Padres and Dodgers in June.

And they won’t be alone if the Marlins and Twins have trouble with their second game on Tuesday or their scheduled game on Wednesday.

It seems logical that MLB will have to alter its scheduling procedures when NL and AL teams are going to play only one series in the opposing park if either team is in an unprotected environment for games in March, April and May when there is any possibility of weather wiping a game off the schedule.

Let’s just hope that none of the affected teams need that game to qualify for postseason play this year. Then we will really have a scheduling nightmare. {jcomments on}