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Early May start to MLB season “best case scenario”

While MLB has only said they are delaying the season two weeks, Jared Diamond says the earliest the season could reasonably start is early May

By Adam J. Morris
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MLB has announced that due to Coronavirus concerns, the start of the season is being delayed for two weeks. That said, I don’t know that any of us thought that a mid-April start date for the season was realistic.

According to Jared Diamond (and Jeff Passan), the best case scenario from those in MLB is an early-May start, “[a]nd even that is probably too soon.”

There continues to be a lot of unknowns about the situation, but can’t imagine there will be baseball played in April, and I think June is probably what we should hope for in regards to games being played. We are likely looking at losing 2-3 months of the 2020 season, and its just a question of when MLB says games beyond the first two weeks are being suspended.