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There probably will be a Major League Baseball season in 2020. The hard part is deciphering when it might begin and how long it might last.
For now, all that's certain is that Opening Day won't happen on March 26. That's when it was supposed to be prior to the coronavirus pandemic. But on March 12, the league canceled the remainder of spring training and punted Opening Day to at least April 9.
On Monday, MLB subsequently fell in line with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation that public gatherings of 50 or more people take an eight-week hiatus:
"I think the biggest topic is obviously with the CDC announcement, we're not going to be playing April 9," MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said, according to Derrick Goold of the St.