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Thoughts:

   -- Odd west coast setup (we hit Oakland and Anaheim in May, and we go to Seattle in the middle of an odd early September road trip -- @KC, @Sea, @TB).

   -- We play the NLE in interleague which means 6 with the Nats instead of the back to back two game series of the past few years.   They are in town Memorial Day.   4th of July we are in Philly, we should send a lot of fans up to Citizens Bank Park for that one

   -- September not nearly as division heavy as past years.   We end the season vs the Astros.

   -- Home heavy July, road heavy August

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17 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Thoughts:

   -- Odd west coast setup (we hit Oakland and Anaheim in May, and we go to Seattle in the middle of an odd early September road trip -- @KC, @Sea, @TB).

   -- We play the NLE in interleague which means 6 with the Nats instead of the back to back two game series of the past few years.   They are in town Memorial Day.   4th of July we are in Philly, we should send a lot of fans up to Citizens Bank Park for that one

   -- September not nearly as division heavy as past years.   We end the season vs the Astros.

   -- Home heavy July, road heavy August

I always thought it made some sense to make those west coast trips progressive... Say, White Sox, Angels, Oakland, home.  Or Royals, Angels, Mariners.  I thought sticking a road series out of the eastern time zone in advance of some west coast games might make it a bit easier to adjust to the time change.  Would be nicer to do one on both ends, but that's probably a bit long for a single road trip.  Maybe if you only did one west coast team in each trip, but that would make for three trips.  Probably need to throw an interleague away series in there to pick up another mid-country team, say Diamondbacks, Rockies, Cardinals, or Cubs.  So, you could do: home, Astros, off day, Angels, Rockies, off day, home; home, Rangers, off day, Oakland, Royals, off day, home; and home, White Sox, off day, Mariners, Twins.  Not sure if there is some CBA rule about where the teams are for off days, but having a CT/MT game followed by an off day before the west coast series seems like it would be helpful.

 

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The players wanted better travel and starting the season 4 days earlier equals 4 more days off. Of course one of those is the day after the opener but that has always been the case. 

The 4 more off days do help to minimize longer stretches of play. 

We get clear some tough games out of the way in April but also finish with Tigers that month. 

We also can't get by with 4 starters in April like this  year. I haven't looked at the master schedule yet but since we go to Houston will need 5 starters 5 times in April. Some teams may still be able to take advantage of that. 

More off days should help to give pitchers some more rest here and there.

 

 

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30 minutes ago, Going Underground said:

You can't please anyone all of the time.:D People are all mensa students. 

 

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/fl-reg-shooting-bullets-into-irma-20170910-story.html

You are right, you can't please everyone.  I still think if the same teams opened up on the road they would complain.  

Nice link. 

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