Some KC Royals Midweek Musings while wondering when it will be too late to begin the 2020 major league season:
The Louisville Slugger bats go quiet…for now. There are no Sluggers coming out of Louisville. Hillerich & Bradsby, a baseball fixture for over a century and one of the leading manufacturers of major league bats, recently announced its factory is closed and most of the company’s employees are furloughed.
H&B has pursued financing from federal aid programs; as of this writing, those efforts haven’t succeeded
The Louisville Slugger bat brand, a significant market force for decades, was recently ranked third among a handful of bat manufacturers who supply the big leagues; the ranking data didn’t identify any current KC Royals as users of the LS.