Takeaways: MLB releases Minnesota Twins 60-game schedule

The Twins learned their 60-game schedule Monday night, and it’ll be a sprint to the playoffs with those 60 games played in a 66-day stretch. They’ll have 40 games against the American League Central Division, with the other 20 against the National League Central Division.

Breaking records in a 60-game MLB season

The shortened-nature of the 2020 season gives increased opportunity for some of baseball’s cherished records to fall. Counting stats that accumulate throughout the season are obviously safe, but stats such as Batting Average or Earned Run Average are very susceptible to the small sample size of just 60-games.

31 MLB players, 7 staff test positive for COVID-19, or 1.2%

The positive tests occurred among 19 of the 30 teams, according to results of the samples sent to the Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory in South Jordan, Utah. There were 3,185 samples collected and tested through the first week of intake testing.