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KC Royals fans recently had reason to believe their team would play in 2020. Now, darkening clouds of uncertainty hover over the major leagues.
Just last week, as the curtain was about to rise on of the more interesting amateur drafts in recent memory, Commissioner Rob Manfred gave fans of the KC Royals and the rest of an anxious baseball world reason to believe–to know–the game would go on in 2020.
It was Wednesday, to be precise, that Manfred told a pre-draft TV audience, “We’re going to play baseball in 2020–100 percent,” an unequivocal, unqualified statement that the big leagues were on the way back.