Report: MLB, owners to hold conference call Monday for plan to restart season

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Major League Baseball will discuss its plans for the 2020 season with team owners on a Monday conference call, The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal reported Saturday.

If owners agree to the plan, MLB will submit its proposal to the players union on Tuesday. The plan's details, according to Rosenthal:

  • The season would start in early July. 
  • Teams would play 78-82 games.
  • Games would be region-based; the Cubs and White Sox would only play teams from the NL and AL Central. 
  • Where possible, teams would play at their home ballparks. 
  • Games would be played without fans, at least to start.
  • Playoffs would be expanded to seven teams per league (14 total). 

Nothing is official, and any plan is subject to change. Experts warn there might not be enough testing to allow for the safety precautions MLB seeks.

“It’s really tricky," Dr. Robert Cintronberg, an infectious disease specialist affiliated with Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, said on a recent Cubs Talk Podcast. “The right time to restart activities in general is when the cases of this disease are declining day after day after day, and we don’t know when that’s going to be yet.

"So it’s very difficult to assign an arbitrary date and say July 1 we’re going to have baseball.”

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