Major League Baseball is set to present a preliminary plan to play a 2020 season to owners on Monday, and if they approve, players will learn details Tuesday.
According to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, the league plans to propose a regular season of roughly 80 games that would begin in early July. The schedule would be regionalized, with teams from each division playing their division rivals as well as their counterparts in the same division from the other league.
The league would use as many home stadiums as possible, with those unable to play at home relocating to spring training sites or other MLB stadiums. The playoffs would be expanded to seven teams per league.
Players will likely be asked to accept a reduction in pay due to the loss of revenue from games played without fans.
These proposals are preliminary and subject to change, and some details have yet to be ironed out. There may even be other changes we don’t yet know about. It is the first extensive guideline we’ve seen from the league, however, in terms of a potential reopening.
