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Shapiro’s best guess? Let’s talk about another four-week “spring training” that may actually bleed into early summer as starting pitchers rebuild their pitch count to a competitive threshold.

“I would say we have a lot of time to spend before we actually need to worry about that,” Shapiro said. “It’s hard to imagine any scenario knowing that so many players are not even having access to throwing or hitting at all. It’s harder to imagine we could get ready faster than four weeks but that will be legislated at the league level.

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“That’s a very secondary area of focus for us after make sure we take care of our people and get to a steady state.”

Like everything else, it seems, the world changed so rapidly. Consider that on March 12 the Jays were playing a split-squad doubleheader in Dunedin and Bradenton and less than a week later front office and other team staff were on a charter flight back to Toronto.

“It’s been a hectic, strange and uncertain 72 hours as we left Dunedin in a way that we didn’t expect to leave and transitioned to a set of concerns and priorities that are necessary as leaders and an organization but not what we would have wanted to be focusing on in the moment,” Shapiro said.

Only three players remain at the Dunedin base — pitchers Ryu, Shun Yamaguchi and Rafael Dolis — due to immigration issues while others who live in the area (Bo Bichette and Nate Pearson to name a pair) remain in Florida.

Reticent to talk numbers in terms of a season length, it is clear that Shapiro doesn’t expect anywhere near a full schedule. If a season doesn’t start until June, say, that much is obvious and the club has already issued layoff notices for April to some 800 gameday staff at the Rogers Centre.

But 140 games or 120, 100 — pick a number — are all mere suppositions based on so much more than what happens between the chalk.

“I think the reality is that we’ve got to react to a set of circumstances that none of us can control, dealing with the medical realities and math realities that change every 24 or 12 hours,” Shapiro said. “When the curve starts to flatten, you can start to project weeks out that we could being to play games.

“Until then, we’ll just think about what the math looks like, what the projections look like and scenario plan off of that.”