Baseball is back
Major League Baseball and the Players' association have reached an agreement Tuesday, regarding the health and safety protocols for the 60-game 2020 season.
"Major League Baseball is thrilled to announce that the 2020 season is on the horizon," commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. "We have provided the players' association with a schedule to play 60 games and are excited to provide our great fans with baseball again soon."
Spring Training 2.0 camps will open July 1, with 29 of the 30 teams staging camps at their home ballparks. Due to the restrictions at the Canada-United States border, the Toronto Blue Jays players will report to the team's minor-league complex in Dunedin, Florida, according to Rob Longley of the Toronto Sun.
The schedule , the MLB's shortest since 1878, will be based on regional alignment, according to Jon Heyman of MLB Network. Each team will face its divisional opponents 40 times, plus another 20 interleague games against their geographic divisional counterparts (for example, AL East teams will play 20 contests against the NL East).
Opening Day will take place on or around July 24, according to Gabe Lacques of USA Today.
Other unique features of the shortened season reportedly include an Aug. 31 trade deadline, 30-man rosters for the first two weeks, and optional taxi squads for road games.
Earlier Tuesday, the players agreed to report to camps. Health and safety protocols were the last hurdle remaining to end the prolonged standoff between the MLB and MLBPA and finalize a 2020 season.
MLB announced Monday that all 30 owners voted to implement the 2020 schedule after the union rejected their final proposal.
The 2020 season had been slated to start on March 26 before the coronavirus pandemic forced MLB to delay the beginning of the campaign.
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