While Major League Baseball brainstorms possible scenarios to start the season, the minors have pretty much been left in limbo. Players are being paid $400 a week through the end of May, but that came at the expense of suspending their contracts and temporarily nullifying teams’ agreements to supply affiliates with players. Outside of that, nothing has been discussed publicly.
Based on everything we know at this point, the earliest possible date by which minor league baseball could feasibly return is July 1, and that’s the best case scenario. What’s become more of a reality lately is the potential for a doomsday scenario in which the season doesn’t happen for the farm system at all in 2020 .