The coronavirus pandemic is making travel all but prohibitively risky for now and the near future. Which means that even if Major League Baseball is able to clear the many, many hurdles ahead of starting a 2020 season, the league will minimize the long flights typical of a sports calendar by keeping regular season competition confined to regions — East, Central or West.
According to multiple reports on the league’s plan, a schedule of 78 to 82 games for the delayed 2020 season would consist only of division opponents and interleague opponents from the same geographical division.