The COVID-19 pandemic has shut down the entire sports world. Major League Baseball opted to suspend the season, but initially allowed players to stay at their respective Spring Training facilities.
That all changed once a minor league player for the New York Yankees tested positive for COVID-19, causing a majority of holdout teams to begin sending their players home.
There’s expectation that the start of the 2020 season will be significantly delayed. According to MLB insider Jon Heyman, who spoke to several team executives, there’s doubt that the campaign will start before the beginning of June.
“The hoped-for April 9 MLB start date was always seen as a best-case scenario, and with developments over the past few days, based on talks with several execs today anytime before June would be viewed as welcome,” said MLB Insider Jon Heyman in a Tweet
The league initially hoped that they could resume activities by April 9th. However, with the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in professional baseball, that date may as well be wiped away.
There will no doubt be an increased amount of testing throughout MiLB and MLB camps to ensure that the virus hasn’t spread.
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