&nbsp;Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. has announced&nbsp; that Major League Baseball anticipates beginning its 2020 regular season approximately one month from now, on July 23rd or July 24th.The announcement follows confirmation that the MLB Players Association has accepted the health and safety protocols that will guide MLB’s return to play and that players will be able to report for training by July 1st.&nbsp;MLB has submitted a 60-game regular season schedule for review by the Players Association. The proposed schedule will largely feature divisional play, with the remaining portion of each Club’s games against their opposite league’s corresponding geographical division (i.e., East vs. East, Central vs. Central and West vs. West), in order to mitigate travel. The vast majority of Major League Clubs are expected to conduct training at the ballparks in their primary home cities.&nbsp;

Major League baseball will return in July