The 2020 MLB season won't get underway until at least May but even in the best-case scenario, there's uncertainty of what the year may look like.
But conjecture gets you nowhere in this unprecedented time for the modern game. All we know is that, barring an unlikely reversal of the COVID-19 outbreak, MLB will not start games before May 9 – and likely not for a few weeks after that date, given players’ need to get back to game speed after a nearly two-month layoff.
With that date now cloudier than ever, and with teams asked to avoid working out in large groups, it will only further complicate the arms shutdown. If there’s less lead time before an all-clear, it would almost certainly force MLB to carry expanded rosters for early-season games, lest they waste most of the summer building starting pitchers into the 90-pitch range.Perhaps.
So perhaps MLB could do away with any concept of merit-based selections and call this 2020 edition what it always is, anyway: A popularity contest.It could be simpler just to cancel the thing altogether, but the Dodgers have waited 40 years to host a Midsummer Classic, and just sunk $100 million into Dodger Stadium to pretty it up. It also wouldn’t hurt for MLB to have a showcase for its greatest players after months out of sight and mind.
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