Thursday was originally scheduled as Opening Day on the Major League Baseball calendar.
As the whole world knows well by now, a lot of things in 2020 are not being completed as originally scheduled. Concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic and an attempt to flatten the curve of infection rate have led to the cancellation and postponement of every event in North America that involves a gathering of any significant number of people, and that includes an indefinite pushing back of the first pitch of the 2020 baseball season.
The shutdown also caused spring training to wrap up two weeks early, giving teams an abbreviated look at their assembled talent, and about half as much time as usual to determine who would be coming north with the team to the major leagues.