Latest idea for revamped 2020 MLB season has this key feature others are missing
Here we go again with another plan MLB is reportedly considering for the 2020 season.
This one has something the others don’t: Teams would be allowed to play games in their home ballparks.
USA Today reported Tuesday that the latest idea would break the 30 MLB teams into three 10-team divisions and do so based on geography in order to minimize. Teams would play only their nine division opponents, but would not be isolated in one location.
The USA Today story has the Texas Rangers playing in the western division, along with the Houston Astros, Arizona Diamondbacks, Colorado Rockies, Seattle Mariners and all five California teams.
Play would begin in late June, and teams would play as many as 110 games in a season severely abbreviated by the coronavirus pandemic.
Any plan is subject to review by medical experts and requires that testing for COVID-19 be available to the public.
What isn’t clear, USA Today said, is whether a season would have to begin in Arizona or Florida, where teams hold spring training, or in Arlington, which is part of the proposed Three State Plan that would utilize Globe Life Field and other ballparks in Dallas-Fort Worth.
The Arizona Plan, in which all 30 teams would relocate to the Phoenix area for games and be quarantined in their hotels when not at the ballpark, has been panned by many players.
