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Baseball's fate in Korea, Japan shows best- and worst-case scenarios for MLB

As Major League Baseball waits for the conditions to be right to see if it can salvage its 2020 season, the fate of baseball in two Asian nations has illustrated the best- and worst-case scenarios.

The prime minister of South Korea gave the go-ahead for the KBO, the country’s top pro league, to begin its season without the presence of fans. According to a report, teams are preparing for games to get going May 1.

South Korea has been one of the success stories during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to widespread testing, and the number of new reported cases in that country Saturday was in single digits.