The 2021 MLB season is fast approaching, and it looks the vast majority of teams, if not all of them, will allow fans into their stadiums.
No team will be filling their stadiums to full capacity, however, due to dangers of worsening the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Being able to admit fans at pre-2020 rates remains the final frontier in the return to normalcy for not just MLB, but sports and entertainment in general.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House's chief medical advisor, discussed what it would take to get MLB stadiums back to full occupancy during an appearance on ESPN's "Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney" podcast, but stopped short of predicting when that day might come.