The two-week delay of the MLB regular season is now a tragic memory.In response to Joe Morgan Jersey a new recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), MLB will push back their season eight weeks.MLB commi sioner Rob Manfred notified all 30 clubs via conference call on Monday.The in an effort to minimize the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), they urged organizers of large events or ma s gathering to cancel or postpone any events that would consist of 50 or more people.-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Major League Baseball announced their decision in a formal statement.-Major League BaseballScroll to Continue to come from Major League Baseball. It could very well Joey Votto Jersey come from other profe sional and collegiate sports leagues/a sociations as well. These organizations have abided by the recommendations from the CDC from the Jesse Winker Jersey beginning of this outbreak, which begun to shake the world of sports only five days ago.Some baseball executives are . Because of the shut down, players will have to ramp things back up again and go through an abbreviated second spring training."I think MLB is pretty aware that you can't just give us a week," Rangers manager Drew Storen Jersey Chris Woodward said. "I would say three-to-four weeks, we would need a heads up. Hopefully sooner than later, they'll give us a start date which we can work backwards from there."This is obviously a very fluid situation and could change at a moment's notice. If eight weeks stays as the final number, the earliest the regular season could start is probably mid-June. With the Alex Wood Jersey way the situation is rapidly changing, it's giving executives in baseball a reason to have le s optimism for the season to start anytime in June.