Keith Law Throws Cold Water on Baseball Restart Rumor
On Monday, rumors began to spread that Major League Baseball could start its regular season as soon as July 1, after restarting spring training in June. The Athletic's Keith Law immediately shot that down.
Former major leaguer Trevor Plouffe got everyone riled up and excited when he took to Twitter and posted the following:
Want some good baseball news??
— Trevor Plouffe (@trevorplouffe) May 4, 2020
I just heard from multiple sources that on June 10th, Spring Training 2 will start. July 1st will be Opening Day and all teams will be playing at their home ballparks.
We’ll be discussing it in full on the next @TalkinBaseball_
Baseball fans were fired up by even the suggestion MLB had a solid plan to play games again. Unfortunately, Law was quick to shut that down:
There's no proposed date for the MLB season to start. That rumor running around today is false. Sorry.
— keithlaw (@keithlaw) May 4, 2020
Law knows what he's talking about and he's a friend of the site, so we're going to go ahead and believe him that the rumor was just wishful thinking.
You'd have to think it's going to take a while for baseball to fully ramp up and the sport probably can't do so until testing for COVID-19 is more widespread and available. There's a lot of uncertainty right now and it seems we're still in a holding pattern.