If baseball can navigate the health precautions, the money and the politics well enough to get their 2020 season started in early July as planned, how prepared are they to navigate the challenges of a rushed “spring” and avoid injuries?
If there’s a bigger challenge in this process than owners and union agreeing on financial terms, it might be that one.
Cubs second baseman Jason Kipnis was among several players to raise the issue during the early weeks of the COVID-19 shutdown. And as the shutdown stretched into his third month this week, it has only become a potentially bigger issue — with many players reducing the intensity of their individual baseball workouts over time.