NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is proposing a one-month delay in starting spring training because of the coronavirus pandemic. Two people familiar with the plan tell The AP that opening day would be pushed back to April 28.
Under the plan presented to the players’ union on Friday, the regular season would be cut from 162 games to 154. Also, the playoffs would be expanded from 10 teams to 14, the designated hitter would extend to the National League for the second straight season and MLB would keep the experimental rules for seven-inning doubleheaders and beginning extra innings with a runner on second base.