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If and when the 2020 MLB season, which has been delayed since March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, starts up this year, a number of changes to the league's protocols and format reportedly could be in store.
Jon Heymanof MLB Network detailed some of the possible adjustments: "Limited travel, no x-country flights, more divisional play, expanded rosters, taxi squads, expanded playoffs, more experiments (runner on 2B in extra innings?), more doubleheaders, fewer off days, high-fiving/spitting discouraged or forbidden."
Scott Lauber of the Philadelphia Inquirer also referenced the possibility on Thursday in reference to the Korea Baseball Organization, which began play this week and has new rules in place in light of the pandemic.