Yesterday, The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reported that Major League Baseball gave the ok to teams to play up to three exhibition games before the start of the regular season. With teams trying to limit travel, Rosenthal noted that it’s possible these exhibition games could come against whoever the opening day opponent is. The assumption I’m making here is that the visiting team would just show up to the home team city for opening day 4-5 days in advance of opening day and play a few games leading up to the start of the regular season.
Cincinnati’s closest two teams would be Cleveland and Pittsburgh – both teams that they will be playing in 2020.