Depending on how things unfold in America and across the globe in the coming weeks and months, there is a possibility that Francisco Lindor will only play one more year with the Cleveland Indians, as opposed to two.
MLB owners have reportedly relaxed their stance on service-time technicalities in the event no baseball is played in 2020. For anyone unfamiliar with the issue at hand, it’s self-explanatory: Owners understandably aren’t thrilled with the idea of losing an entire year’s worth of control over Player A if the season is canceled.
By the same token, it’s not Player A’s fault a real-life sci-fi disaster novel broke out three weeks before the season was supposed to start.