Baseball is back on July 4th!

Many forget MLB staged to begin in April with the NBA abruptly ending their season and in a quandary on preceding moves. Baseball has been vigorously looking for potential plans to get the 2020 MLB season off the ground. The 2020 season is full of storylines; we got Joe Madden with the Angels, Mookie and Bellinger, Tanking of the Marlins, Ross with the cubs, Astros treatment on the road, and finally, the Yankees reloaded with Gerrit Cole. MLB, we have heard every proposal with no official announcement or decision until now. MLB has announced they be back on July 4th.

Baseball is coming back! Not with significant stipulations though and tons of moving parts. Baseball is to come back on the 4th of July. The reopening is contingent upon the availability of over 200,000 tests, the cooperation of 27 U.S cities, and a guarantee to not interfere with the nationwide fight to contain the pandemic.

According to MLB the plan to reopen

• Calls for frequent not daily testing quarantines only those who are positives
• MLB will be competing with medical providers for essential resources in some states and swore not to take away from the public.
• MLB did not consult health officials from big-league cities.
• They will take the precaution disinfecting baseballs, deep cleaning clubhouses, and no fans at the stadium.

MLB will need help and reopen quickly right now. They are losing roughly $75 million a day, according to estimates by Patrick Rishe, director of the sports business program at Washington University in St. Louis. Baseball officials are considering a half a season and expanded playoffs. MLB has stated that the plan to reopen is the first draft and amended as necessary. MLB and players urged to resume from the Trump administration.

MLB is prepared to move teams to locations that have been reopened if state or local governments prohibit that team from playing in their respective cities. Details of MLB’s plan are still hazy. The main caveat to the whole operation resuming is the diagnostic testing to ensure that thousands of people, players, staff, and other personnel — remain uninfected.

It is determined how much of their tentative plan will be altered and still developed. One thing is sure baseball is coming back on July 4th now comes the hard part of figuring out the how.