They should drop the regular season to 150 games.
Phase it in over a period of years, to ease the loss of revenue.
The only reason it’s 162 is because when they expanded in 1961/62, they wanted a balanced schedule.
But the balanced schedule is long gone.
I agree... something has to be done I think, but I’m an old man and nobody listens to me :)
And 162 games was pretty close to the former 154 game schedule they had when they had a balanced schedule with 8 team leagues.
Some people say don’t lessen the number of games due to wanting to compare statistics from year to year, and to compare stats you need to play the same number of games.
But not sure that matters. The way they use pitchers nowadays, for example, with pitch counts and 5 man rotations, we may not see any more 300 game winners in pitching. This would be true whether they play 162 games or whether they cut back the schedule.
Home run records are meaningless due to the steroid era anyway.
Great hitters will still get 3000 hits and hit .300 in a season or a career.
Just a thought.