If it can, MLB in 2020 will look radically different:
Teams will play their four divisional opponents 10 times and each of the five interleague opponents in the same geographical area four games apiece.
The National League will use a designated hitter.
In extra innings, teams will begin with a runner on second base.
The trade deadline will be Aug. 31, less than a month before the regular season is scheduled to end.
Rosters will start at 30 men for the first two weeks then go to 28 for the next two weeks and stay at 26 for the remainder of the season.
Teams will have a taxi squad that allows them to have as many as 60 players available to play in major league games.
There will be a COVID-19 injured list with no minimum or maximum length of time spent on it, while standard injured list stints will be for 10 days and the typical 60-day stint will instead be for 45 days.
They explain that it's a handicap against extra innings or overly long games. That it's to help prevent overly exerting and exhausting the players to that kind of degree.
President Donald Trump's first-ever visit to the Bronx as commander-in-chief next month, where he's expected to throw the first pitch at a Yankees game, is being met with sharp ire from the Borough President, who unloaded a gut-punching critique that called out the Bronx Bombers.
An incensed Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.--who is expected to retire from politics in a year and a half--released a scathing statement over the Yankees decision to invite Trump, whom Diaz called a "white supremacist" that's to be blamed for the current mood of the country and his response to the COVID-19 pandemic that's been widely panned.
"Many local workers have lost their jobs – including those small businesses right next door to Yankee Stadium. Roughly 150,000 Americans, including nearly 4,000 Bronxites, have died due to COVID-19," said Diaz. "The Yankees would be better served by honoring them and their families rather than a president whose bluster and incompetence utterly failed to restrain the pandemic."
NFL is having and will be having similar types of problems. I can’t imagine the seasons without baseball or NFL football. Used to feel that way about basketball and hockey but so much anymore. Lots of teams might not survive a shutdown if the season stops .
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