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The KC Royals are headed for a short season. Fewer games means added pressure on a veteran member of the club’s starting rotation.
Back in mid-December, I wrote that 2020 would be the most important season of KC Royals pitcher Danny Duffy‘s career. But that was before COVID-19 established its place in our daily vocabulary, attained infamy, and unfortunately muscled its way into the very fabric of our world.
Now, precisely two months after the pandemic short-circuited spring training and brought baseball to a stunningly sudden stop, the game faces the certainty of a shortened season–Major League Baseball is reportedly set to propose to its players, as early as today, a July startup of a 2020 season cut by approximately half.