Cold-weather teams: 12 clubs (Cubs, Guardians, Mets, Phillies, Pirates, Red Sox, Reds, Rockies, Tigers, Twins, White Sox, Yankees).Warm weather/dome teams: 14 clubs (Angels, Astros, Athletics, Blue Jays, Braves, Brewers, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Giants, Mariners, Marlins, Padres, Rays, Rangers).I’ve divided the teams into three groups: In that four-week period, most teams have three off days (the Cubs have four). I’ve looked at all 30 teams’ schedules for their first 25 games this year, essentially four weeks’ worth of games taking us into late April. Even though those off days are in part placed there for rainout makeups, in practice players like to zealously guard their days off and what we wind up with are split doubleheaders, which everyone hates. not with the weather forecast the way it’s shaping up, and four of the five teams visiting Wrigley in April (Dodgers, Padres, Rangers, Mariners) all coming in just once. You’d think that might be an advantage for the Cubs, but. This means the possibility of a) more postponements difficult to make up, or b) games played in awful weather, or c) both.Įnter the Cubs’ 2023 schedule, which begins this Thursday, March 30 with the team playing 16 of its first 25 games at Wrigley Field. Central rivals will come to Wrigley Field just twice a year instead of three times, which will make scheduling any makeup games even more problematic. Worse, with less divisional play, the Cubs’ N.L. With the new balanced schedule, 18 different teams will play the Cubs in their North Side home, with 14 of those teams coming in just once. Last year, 14 different visiting teams played at Wrigley Field. Major League Baseball’s 2023 schedule says, “Hold my beer,” because this one’s got a chance to make things even worse.
(The next day’s game was, in fact, postponed - one of those four postponements within nine games noted above.) In April 2018, four games of a nine-game homestand were postponed due to cold, wet weather (including the home opener due to snow) and another of those nine was played in horrific conditions because it was against a team coming to Wrigley just once (Braves), the forecast for the next day was as bad if not worse and they didn’t want to have to make up two rainouts. That one’s from 2019, when the Cubs and Angels were snowed out, with the makeup game squished into an off day on the schedule in June. Yes, snow, and it happens more frequently than anyone would want. The photo above shows you the type of weather we often have in Chicago in April.
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