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Major League Baseball will discu s their plans for the 2020 regular season with its club owners on Monday, according to . If the owners approve Doug Williams Jersey , the league will present the proposal to the MLB Players A sociation on Tuesday.Nothing in the plans are official or finalized and would be subject to change, according to The Athletic. If ownership approves, the players union also has to approve it, not to mention the unpredictability of the spread of the novel coronavirus could force any of the details of this plan to change. Any plan to get the season underway would also be subject to approval by government and public health officials.According to The Athletic's report, a few of the details in the proposal to be discu sed include:A regular season beginning in early July and consisting of approximately 80 games a number that is not ironclad. 78 or 82 games are also po sibilities.In similar fashion to the , the schedule would be regionalized. Unlike USA Today's report, MLB would keep the leagues and divisions intact. To minimize travel, teams would face only the opponents in their own division and all of the teams in the geographic location in the opposite league. For the Texas Sean Taylor Jersey Rangers, they would only play AL West and NL West teams.Teams would play in their home ballparks if at all po sible. Teams unable to open the season in their own cities would temporarily relocate to either their spring training Dyami Brown Jersey facilities or another major league ballpark elsewhere in the country.Playoffs would be expanded from five to seven teams per league. The best record from each league would get a bye and automatically advance to the Division series while the other six teams played in three best-of-three series as an expanded Wildcard round. The standard playoff format would follow.Due to a shortened season and games being played without fans at least initially the players would be asked to accept a further reduction in pay. Most likely, the league would ask the players to agree to for only the 2020 season.The final point will likely be the most difficult point for both sides to agree upon. MLB and the players union already where the league gave $170 million in salary advances and the players agreed to prorated salaries in the case of a shortened season. However over recent days, the players have been adamant so far that as part of any contingency plan for kickstarting the regular season.Scroll to ContinueAccording to The Athletic's report, league officials say they would spend more on player salaries than they would earn in revenue for every incremental regular season game played without fans in attendance. Landon Collins Jersey In 2019, over 38 percent of MLB's $10.7 billion in revenue .Other details including expanded rosters and medical protocols are also likely to be part of Troy Apke Jersey the discu sions between MLB and its club owners on Monday. Expanded rosters could see as many as 45 to 50 players. The league would have to have some sort of protocol in place regarding player safety and if any players become infected throughout the season.The timing of these discu sions is not a coincidence. The that urged large ma s gatherings of 50 or more people to be canceled or postponed for eight weeks expired on May 10. MLB and other profe sional sports leagues suspended operations rapidly after the CDC i sued that recommendation. As stated before, these plans to salvage the baseball season are at the mercy of the CDC and other public health officials.