There will be a Major League Baseball season in 2020. Both MLB team owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association have agreed to the final steps about the parameters of the regular season.
Players are expected to arrive at their spring training camps by July 1. All 30 MLB spring training camps will start on July 3. The proposed date for the regular season opening games will be on July 23 or July 24. The season is slated to end on September 27. Contests can be moved to neutral sites during the season in case the coronavirus pandemic has a dramatic effect on any one of the 30 Major League Baseball teams local communities.
All clubs will play 60 games in the regular season. It would consist of 40 games against their divisional opponents The other 20 games would be interleague games against regional opponents.
The Marlins won't travel outside of the Eastern time zone this season. They will compete in 40 games versus National League East teams on their schedule. The remaining 20 contests would be against clubs in the American League East.
One other concept will also be added to the regular season. The designated hitter will be used in the National League for the first time. There has been talk that the designated hitter would likely be implemented in National League play sometime in the future once a new collective bargaining agreement was agreed between the owner and players.
The designated hitter rule has been used in the American League since 1973 and American League World Series home games since 1976. It started for interleague regular season games in 1997 when the American League club was the host team.
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