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Early July remains MLB’s target for a season. Spring training would likely be 3 weeks, plus 2 weeks for those who wish to come early. With minor leagues not too likely (but not canceled to this point) MLB rosters are expected to be expanded, and there may be a taxi squad as well.finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84
SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
C Stallings 2, Casali 1
1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1
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So the latest iteration likely has things staying as is, just playing in empty stadiums, with spring training 2.0 also in their home stadiums. So the Arizona or Florida-only scenario is seemingly gone.
An 80-100 game season seems the most likely scenario, with a July 1 start. 25 games per month with the regular season extending through October.
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I have been watching some Taiwanese baseball, whose 120-game season with four teams began a couple of weeks ago.
I'm a Rakuten Monkeys guy, and have made a sliver of money off their 11-3 start as this is legal in NJ (and possibly other states).
The Monkeys have an amusing English-speaking announcing duo - one of whom is Richard Wang (yes, really) - and four "cheer squad" gals. their lefty slugger has a silly 10 HR in 13 games. all of the relievers appear to be terrible, so lots of high-scoring affairs. neither players nor cheer squad gals wear masks (COVID-19 is almost nonexistent in Taiwan so far and their border is closed).
https://twitter.com/ElevenSportsTW
hey, it's baseball. mostly 6:30 AM ET starts, though, and they don't dally for 4 hours like Yankees and Red Sox do.
currently the "fans" in the stands are robots and life-sized cardboard cutouts, but soon they will try for 250 real fans - maximum 2 per section.finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84
SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
C Stallings 2, Casali 1
1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1
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Originally posted by TranaGreg View Postmind you, if all teams will be playing in their home parks on July 1, who will they be playing??? ... never mind, it's still great news ...
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some pushback on Twitter tonight on Plouffe's comments...
keithlaw
@keithlaw
There's no proposed date for the MLB season to start. That rumor running around today is false. Sorry.
6:56 PM · May 4, 2020finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84
SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
C Stallings 2, Casali 1
1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1
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Originally posted by Judge Jude View Postsome pushback on Twitter tonight on Plouffe's comments...
keithlaw
@keithlaw
There's no proposed date for the MLB season to start. That rumor running around today is false. Sorry.
6:56 PM · May 4, 2020I'm just here for the baseball.
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Originally posted by chancellor View PostIn this case, I'm going to embrace the power of "and". Plouffe's not the only one who's brought up first of July for baseball, and MLB doesn't yet have an agreement with the labor union, so there's no "official" start date. I'll bet Plouffe is much closer to correct, though.
BTW, Law gets very snarky when responding to many in the Twitterverse.....
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that's Law on his good days.
on his bad days...finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84
SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
C Stallings 2, Casali 1
1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1
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