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What will a baseball season look like? What the CPBA, KOB and NRL’s planned starts can tell us

Baseball will be played in 2020. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred seems to have zeroed in on that mantra as a certainty.

How and when a baseball season might be played remains entirely uncertain. Though, bits, pieces and multi-city variances of an “Arizona plan” — where all 30 teams are sequestered in Phoenix area hotels to play a shortened season, tested constantly, and instructed to cut off physical contact with others — seems to be a logical starting point despite the plethora of logistic drawbacks.

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Baseball leagues such as the Chinese Professional Baseball League and Korean Baseball Organization have implemented or are locking in plans to follow that general guideline in order to star their seasons.