Should there be no season or a severe reduction to the regular-season schedule, the loaded Dodgers come to mind as one. They took a gamble by acquiring star outfielder Mookie Betts with just one year left on his contract, and it's uncertain whether there will even be a game played in 2020.
From another perspective, the White Sox are a team that has really felt the effect of no baseball, longtime baseball scribe Peter Gammons of the Athletic said on the Mully & Haugh Show on Wednesday morning.
"The White Sox are a team that this is affecting as much as anybody," Gammons said. "I'm not talking about the revenues. I'm just looking at player development and where they were. Their people were ecstatic (entering spring training)."
Gammons pointed to how the White Sox -- from general manager Rick Hahn to manager Rick Renteria to the players -- were viewing 2020 as a breakthrough step in their competitive phase. That goal is now on hold.
"The White Sox are so close to the border of being really good that they've really been hurt by this," Gammons said. "If they don't play until next year -- and I'm not a betting man, but if I were to bet, I would bet we don't see games until next year -- but the White Sox have been set back in an unfortunate way. And I say that, I obviously feel much more sorry for everyone who is ill in this country, but at least the White Sox tried to do it right. They never said, 'We're going to be really good in a year.' They said, 'We'll be good again when we're ready to be good.' They made no promises. I thought they did this rebuilding thing as well as anyone and as patiently as anyone. And some of this could backfire on them."