Bryce Harper offers his own proposal for MLB season

MLB’s proposal to play the 2020 season has proven unpopular with players. That’s mostly because of finances, but one star has his own ideas for how the campaign should play out.

Bryce Harper suggested his own set of guidelines for the 2020 season, including a 135-game schedule and a round robin playoff system.

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Baseball Season:⠀ Beyond the health and safety which comes first for all players, staff, workers, fans, and families. ⠀ ⠀ Just an idea I have been thinking about. ⠀ ⠀ East/West like NBA. ⠀ ⠀ July 31 days⠀ August 31 days ⠀ September 30 days ⠀ October 31 days ⠀ November 15 days ⠀ 135 games. ⠀ Off day every 2 weeks on a Monday and Sunday double header 7 innings. ⠀ ⠀ 30 players. 6 man rotation. Save arms. IF pitchers wanted this. If not no big deal. DH and any other ideas possible.⠀ ⠀ Playoffs ⠀ 2 week World Series. Like Super bowl week. ⠀ ⠀ 10 teams round robin format College World Series kinda style at the new Texas Stadium or whatever stadium/ stadiums are best. 3 game series. You win the series you move on. You lose you play the other loser in a 1 game wildcard. Winner of that moves on. Other team is out. ⠀ Or you could play it in Vegas so you have the Strip Hotels and could use one hotel for all the guys and contain possibly? ⠀ ⠀ 2 teams left 7 game World Series. They get 2 days off before the series. With those 2 days off you do a All Star Game and homerun derby. Could do the MLB awards as well at that time. ⠀ ⠀ Open this up on all platforms. No blackouts. Open it for everybody to watch. ⠀ Then you back up season the next 2 years. May 1st 2021. April 1st 2022. Maybe I’m crazy. Just fun to think about and throw around ideas

A post shared by Bryce Harper (@bryceharper3) on May 15, 2020 at 10:27pm PDT

Playing 135 games at this stage is probably unrealistic, but it’s fun to see Harper thinking outside the box. Other than the larger schedule, there are parts of the Harper plan that bear some similarities to what MLB is actually proposing.

None of this solves the real big issue right now in negotiations between the league and the MLBPA. It’s a sign that players do want to play, though.