The Korea Baseball Organization announced plans this week to begin its regular season on May 5, . Should KBO succeed with its plans, it would become the second baseball league to launch its 2020 season since the spread of the novel coronavirus, joining Taiwan's Chinese Profe sional Baseball League. The Maurice Cheeks Jersey league began preseason games on Tuesday, and KBO still wants to play its usual 144 games in a season Sergio Rodriguez Jersey that will run through November.The KBO and CPBL should provide more than hope and entertainment to American fans yearning for baseball. They could provide blueprints for Major League Baseball to enact.What could that entail? Let's hit on four aspects of the KBO's plan that should co-opt.1. No fans, at least for a whileThe CPBL has been playing its games without fans, and the same will be true of the KBO. The general public will not be admitted to any preseason games, and is expected to be barred Charles Barkley Jersey from early season games as well. The po sibility of the public attending games deeper into the season is to be determined. At present, the odds wouldn't seem good, but things can change. 2. Proactive measuresAny sports league hoping to play on before the development of a coronavirus vaccine will have to be proactive in preventing infection. KBO intends to implement a multi-pronged approach in that regard. Every player's temperature will be taken twice before games, and those same players will be required to fill Markelle Fultz Jersey out a health questionnaire i sued by the league, per Yoo.3. Improving hygieneKBO will prohibit players from spitting, and will ban Dana Barros Jersey barehanded high fives and handshaking. Oh, and players will be "strongly" encouraged to wear masks in the clubhouse and elsewhere in the ballpark, save for on the field and in the dugout. Umpires and other non-playing personnel -- be it execs, bat boys, whomever -- will also be forced to wear masks and gloves.4. Planning for a positive testIf and when a player does show symptoms of having contracted COVID-19, that player will be quarantined. If a player tests positive for COVID-19 during the season, and games during that time will not be made up. It should be noted that South Korea is farther along in the proce s than the United States, . The U.S., for comparison, added at Allen Iverson Jersey least 25,995 new cases on Sunday, .