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Plans For The 2020 Season TBA’d Soon

For the last week or so, reports have been trickling in of an eventual 2020 season that would begin in the early part of July. Then on Monday, former Twins third baseman, Trevor Plouffe, tweeted out an actual date spring training would pick back up along with one for an actual opening day. He explained his announcement in further detail on Talkin’ Baseball:

Afterward, there were reports denying the accuracy of the Plouffe bomb.

Then early this morning, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reported that the Cleveland Indians were informing players to prepare for the season to begin on or around July 1st. He would also go on to mention the hoops the league would have to jump through in order for a season to play out regardless of the rumored proposed scenarios and that, according to his sources, there was no confirmation of a plan in the works.

Later in the day, Jeff Passan of ESPN went on Sportscenter and dropped his own bomb:

Joel Sherman of The New York Post confirmed Passan’s news with his own report while adding this:

By the beginning of next week at the latest — perhaps even before this week is concluded — MLB is planning to present to the Players Association a proposal that will include what is currently the most optimistic hope: What would a season look like if spring training 2.0 began in June and the regular season in July?

The sides are doing this now just in case the rosiest scenario plays out and — among many current hurdles — health officials open up enough locales to allow the renewal of spring training in 6-8 weeks.

But like Ken Rosenthal’s report, Sherman’s came with similar caveats:

The obstacles to returning to play, though, remain significant. The numbers of Americans contracting and dying from the coronavirus are going up in a few areas where MLB wants to play. There have yet to be clear signals that the league will be provided enough green lights to return all the teams to either their home or spring sites and that the clubs will have the equipment, tests and medical personnel necessary to do so.

Rosenthal would then follow up confirming Passan and Sherman’s news:

It’s a little over 1 month of the suspected commencement for spring training 2.0. The next few weeks will be crucial in deciding what Major League Baseball will do next.

Oskar is a writer for Dodgers-Lowdown. Follow him on Twitter @2rawsko94. Graphic credit: aNb Media, Inc.

 

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