With the negotiations hurdle between MLB and the players association in the past (while it wasn’t technically cleared, it is now in the rearview mirror, at least for now) we will have baseball in 2020. The league said that the season would start either on July 23 or 24, and players will start reporting to camp on July 1st.
The common enemy is, and always was, the current, ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that instead of decreasing in cases, deaths and importance, is spiking as we speak. In the last few hours, the outbreak hit MLB very hard.
The Philadelphia Phillies announced that more players and staffers tested positive for the virus, while a former New York Yankees‘ reliever, Phil Diehl (the one they sent to the Colorado Rockies in exchange for outfielder Mike Tauchman) also has the disease.