Major League Baseball announced the schedule for the 2020 MLB season on Monday. The Opening Day will take place on July 23rd with a match between the New York Yankees and the defending World Series champions Washington Nationals.

Besides Yankees and Nationals, San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers will also take the field on the same day. All other teams will have their opening games the day after, on July 24th.

Considering the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and decision to play only 60 games in the regular season, MLB had to get creative with the schedule. In order to minimize the health risks and limit the travel, the league decided to have teams play their regional opponents, but that won’t affect the divisions.

In a 60-game setting, a team will play 40 games in their division, while its remaining 20 games will be based on its most proximate regional opponents. The best example are Chicago Cubs, who will play interleague games versus American League Central teams Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Royals, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, and Minnesota Twins.

MLB hopes to commence the postseason on September 29th and have the Game 1 of World Series on October 20th. The potential Game 7 of the World Series is scheduled on October 28th.

The league previously announced that the All-Star game wouldn’t take place this year due to specific circumstances. Los Angeles Dodgers, who were set to host this year, will instead welcome the game in 2022.

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Major League Baseball fans were given a bit of hope during the week after reports suggested that Commissioner Rob Manfred and Players Association president Tony Clark were getting closer to reaching an agreement that would see the postponed baseball season get underway.

However, a new bucket of ice-cold water doused that hope with reality on Thursday, after it came to light that Manfred had immediately rejected the Union’s proposal of a 70-game regular season.

The two parties held a “productive” meeting earlier in the week in which several stumbling blocks towards an agreement, including player compensation, safety protocols, and season length, had reportedly been ironed out.

However, as the Players’ Association made it clear in their counter-proposal to Manfred, there is still a significant gap between the two sides when it comes to how many games will be played.

“I told (Clark) 70 games was simply impossible given the calendar and the public health situation, and he went ahead and made that proposal anyway,” Manfred said when asked about the problem regarding the number of games in the season.

Manfred has stated that, according to public health recommendations, it would be unsafe for the season to go on past the month of October, something that would be inevitable in the latest union proposal.

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Major League Baseball announced the schedule for the 2020 MLB season on Monday. The Opening Day will take place on July 23rd with a match between the New York Yankees and the defending World Series champions Washington Nationals.

Besides Yankees and Nationals, San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers will also take the field on the same day. All other teams will have their opening games the day after, on July 24th.

Considering the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and decision to play only 60 games in the regular season, MLB had to get creative with the schedule. In order to minimize the health risks and limit the travel, the league decided to have teams play their regional opponents, but that won’t affect the divisions.

In a 60-game setting, a team will play 40 games in their division, while its remaining 20 games will be based on its most proximate regional opponents. The best example are Chicago Cubs, who will play interleague games versus American League Central teams Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Royals, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, and Minnesota Twins.

MLB hopes to commence the postseason on September 29th and have the Game 1 of World Series on October 20th. The potential Game 7 of the World Series is scheduled on October 28th.

The league previously announced that the All-Star game wouldn’t take place this year due to specific circumstances. Los Angeles Dodgers, who were set to host this year, will instead welcome the game in 2022.

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Major League Baseball fans were given a bit of hope during the week after reports suggested that Commissioner Rob Manfred and Players Association president Tony Clark were getting closer to reaching an agreement that would see the postponed baseball season get underway.

However, a new bucket of ice-cold water doused that hope with reality on Thursday, after it came to light that Manfred had immediately rejected the Union’s proposal of a 70-game regular season.

The two parties held a “productive” meeting earlier in the week in which several stumbling blocks towards an agreement, including player compensation, safety protocols, and season length, had reportedly been ironed out.

However, as the Players’ Association made it clear in their counter-proposal to Manfred, there is still a significant gap between the two sides when it comes to how many games will be played.

“I told (Clark) 70 games was simply impossible given the calendar and the public health situation, and he went ahead and made that proposal anyway,” Manfred said when asked about the problem regarding the number of games in the season.

Manfred has stated that, according to public health recommendations, it would be unsafe for the season to go on past the month of October, something that would be inevitable in the latest union proposal.

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