After foregoing a regular season bubble, it feels inevitable baseball will create one for October.

MLB has seen twice how COVID-19 can slam the breaks on a team’s season. But the postseason schedule cannot be stopped. Owners were adamantly against extending the playoffs into November. So it makes an enormous amount of sense for MLB to huddle its playoff teams into centralized locations, especially given the success of the NHL and NBA bubbles.

What kind of shape does MLB’s bubble take, though? Where do teams and leagues end up and for how long? Where should the World Series be played? SI’s MLB staff weighs in on all of the above.

Tom Verducci

MLB adopted a regional schedule (less travel) for a two-month season to limit risk exposure to coronavirus. Smart move. So why would you have multiple teams criss-crossing the country for postseason games? The answer: you don’t.

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