Major League Baseball has yet to set a start date for the 2020 season, but Phillies outfielder Bryce Harper already has his sights set on 2021.
Harper said he would like MLB players to participate in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, calling the exclusion of professionals “such a travesty.”
"It is such a travesty to me," Harper said on Barstool Sports' Starting 9 podcast. "The 2020 Olympics, in Japan. And you're not sending big league guys? Are you kidding me? You want to grow the game as much as possible and you're not going to let us play in the Olympics because you don't want to [lose] out on money for a two-week period?