The 2020 Minor league baseball season  has been canceled according to Baseball America’s J.J. Cooper and Josh Norris.

Though not entirely unexpected when coupled with MLB’s plans for reducing the number of minor league affiliates this announcement makes for a cloudy future for the lower tiers of the sport in America.

MLB has preapproved seven bidding groups, including a group headed by Alex Rodriguez and Jeniffer Lopez.

The Giants placed right-hander Tyler Beede on the 45-day injured list and outrighted fellow righty Enderson Franco to Triple-A Sacramento on Monday, per Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area.

The Baltimore Orioles singed former University of Arkansas stand out Heston Kjerstad. In three seasons with the Razorbacks Kjerstad played in 150 games, hit for a .343 batting average with a 1.011 On Base Plus Sluggin percentage. In 595 At bats Kjerstad hit 37 home runs, drove in 129 RBIs and walked 54 times.

The Colorado Rockies have signed journeyman outfielder Matt Kemp according to Bob Nightengale of USA Today to a minor league contract. Both parties had been in extended contract negotiations but the Rockies timetable got pushed up by the universal DH rule and Ian Desmond’s announcements that he would opt out of the 2020 season.

And the Korean Baseball Organization has announced that fans will be allowing fans back into the stadium within the next few days. Jeeho Yoo of Yonhap News reports that teams will allow roughly one third of their usual capacity with three additional stipulations.