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Very Optimistic Vaccine Timeline, Likelihood of Expanded Playoffs Increases Hope for Bigger Baseball Budgets

The first doses of the new coronavirus vaccine have been distributed and are being administered around the country, providing a very bright light at the end of what has been a longer tunnel than anyone had initially imagined. Based on projections for production and distribution, it’s starting to sound as though widespread vaccinations could even be conducted in time for the start of the next baseball season.

“I had been saying by my calculation, sometime by the end of March the beginning of April that the normal, healthy man and woman on the street who has no underlying conditions would likely get it,” Dr.