Major League Baseball and its players are focused on a plan that could allow them to start the season as early as May, according to sources.

The plan includes a number of possible stumbling blocks, but it has the support of high-ranking federal public health officials who believe the league can safely operate amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The plan would have that all 30 teams play games at stadiums with no fans in the greater Phoenix area, including the Arizona Diamondbacks' Chase Field, 10 spring training facilities and perhaps other nearby fields.

Players, coaching staffs and other essential personnel would be sequestered at local hotels, where they would live in relative isolation and travel only to and from the stadium.