No one has any idea when the MLB season will finally get to begin, but the push for baseball is clearly on.
On Monday, ESPN’s Jeff Passan offered a thorough reporting of where MLB stands with a season that the coronavirus has indefinitely suspended:
Over the past two weeks, as states have begun to plan their reopenings, nearly everyone along the decision-making continuum — league officials, players, union leaders, owners, doctors, politicians, TV power brokers, team executives — has grown increasingly optimistic that there will be baseball this year.
Passan added that this is the tentative timeline, though “tentative” should probably be bolded, italicized, underlined, and repeated three times:
Finalize a plan in May.