Report: Baseball Activities Could Start Up in June

There continues to be growing optimism that Major League Baseball could restart the season as early as mid-June and play games in July.

We started to hear rumblings the other day about the possibility of baseball returning in June thanks to this tweet from former player Trevor Plouffe.

Now several MLB reporters are saying the same thing with Jeff Passan dropping an article last night confirming Plouffe’s comment.

He was on ESPN’s Get UP this morning talking a little more about the latest report on a restart for baseball.

Like Plouffe originally said, teams could start a three-week spring training around June 10 with games likely to start on July 1.

When I saw the tweet from Plouffe it made a lot of sense to me based on everything we’ve been hearing. I think that’s what MLB would love to see happen, but as Passan points out in the interview above, this is still an optimistic reality.

They still have to get the players and health officials on board. And then there is figuring out how they’re going to pay players in a shortened season, where will they play games, how will they keep players safe and provide testing without taking away from the public.

So there are still a lot of hurdles to overcome, but I think it’s good to at least go ahead and put a plan in place and then if things change down the line they can adjust.

And also as Passan points out, the players need to be notified and ready so that they come to spring training 2.0 ready to go and get back in playing shape as soon as possible.

It’s becoming more-and-more likely that games will be played at home stadiums — obviously with no fans. I’m not sure that makes the most sense, but it’s probably what the players prefer and what MLB will have to do in order to get them on board and possibly to get them to agree with some pay cuts.

I’m trying to get too excited, but there really has been a lot of positive movement for a restart lately. Hopefully we’ll get an official word from the league soon.