As soon as possible, baseball wants to be what it often has been.
After world wars and 9/11 and every summer and fall.
“We want to give everybody something to look forward to,” Padres pitcher Craig Stammen said this week. “Hopefully that’s baseball.”
Multiple players and fans have expressed similar sentiments in recent weeks. So have people from Major League Baseball and executives with the MLB Players Association, in private conversations and conference calls and interviews.
“The one thing I know for sure is baseball will be back,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred told ESPN last week.