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MLB Suspends Spring Training and Delays Start of Season

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According to Jeff Passan, Major League Baseball is expected to suspend Spring Training. He also notes that the beginning of the regular season could be delayed as well. This is obviously a story that will play out over the next few days as more information comes out. We will post any updates below.

Here’s a quick update from Joel Sherman. Looks like today’s game will be the last for now. (Sherman updated his original tweet)

Announcement is supposed to come shortly

Better update from Sherman

Some reports about spring training and players remaining with the team

MLB has officially suspended action and Opening Day will be at least two weeks later.

Statement from Bob Nutting

Minor League Baseball has also announced that their season will start later. An interesting decision, considering that their season was scheduled to start on April 9th, exactly two weeks after Opening Day in the majors.

Adam Berry with some news from the locker room

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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