KC Royals News: Start of regular season delayed further
With Spring Training canceled, KC Royals news surrounds how the Major League Baseball regular season will likely be delayed even further due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Life without baseball is bleak and now Kansas City Royals fans and MLB fans everywhere will likely be waiting even longer for the 2020 season to begin. The COVID-19 outbreak led the league to cancel spring training games and initially the regular season was delayed for two weeks.
More sporting leagues around the country seem pessimistic that things will improve in the next two weeks, so now it’s unlikely we have Major League Baseball in our lives until April – potentially even later.
While the Royals weren’t going to be anything special in 2020, fans are still excited to watch their favorite team take the diamond for the season. This also could be a big season for some of the prospects waiting to make their debuts and help lead the next wave of championship contending teams in Kansas City.
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"Major League Baseball has given players three options while spring training is suspended. They can choose to stay at the spring training facilities and continue to work out, although personnel may be limited. Players that stay at the facilities will still get their spring training allowance."
There’s so much we don’t know about COVID-19 right now and until more information is known, it’s obviously difficult to predict what might happen with professional sports. Major League Baseball starting in the next two weeks seems highly unlikely and games beginning in May has been thrown around – though even that could be too optimistic of a start date.
I think @JeffPassan already said this, but I can say that pretty much nobody in the baseball world believes the season will start two weeks late. The best-case scenario, according to a whole bunch of people, is early May. And even that is probably too soon.
— Jared Diamond (@jareddiamond) March 13, 2020
The next thing to wonder is how many games will end up being played in the regular season and if the postseason will be affected at all. It seems difficult to still play 162 games, especially if the league doesn’t begin play until May.
Right now – No one knows what to expect or how long this could go on for.