MLB Considering Playing Season in Japan is Most Deranged Idea Yet

As evidenced by its Arizona and Florida-situated proposals that would include a bizarre realignment of divisions, the MLB is motivated to get the 2020 regular season underway amid the coronavirus crisis. However, the latest buzz suggests that the league seriously needs to take its foot off the gas.

Appearing on SportsCenter on Friday night, MLB insider Tim Kurkjian said that a source recently told him that the league was considering playing the season in Japan. What?

How would the MLB and Japan League mesh? We're glad you asked. Per Kurkjian, it's been discussed that both leagues would split up games by day and night.

Kurkjian claiming that he didn't even want to follow up on this rumor says everything about how preposterous this idea is.

We sincerely doubt that this proposal will be ratified, but it further proves that the MLB is willing to go to great lengths to get in as many games as possible this year. While we admire the league's incentive, this is downright deranged.

Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball league announced last week that it was further postponing the start of its season, possibly to late June. Why on earth would the MLB plan to play its season there? Time difference, making the players travel across the world... the list goes on and on for why this shouldn't happen.

We miss baseball as much as anybody, but this idea crosses the line of the extent we are willing to witness the MLB resort to in order to start the 2020 season.