Wednesday marked three months until the start of the Tokyo Olympic baseball tournament ¡ª assuming the coronavirus doesn¡¯t blow another fastball past the organizers, who, if we¡¯re being honest, are probably sitting on a 2-2 count at best.

Let¡¯s assume, however, the games will take place.

The original plan for Samurai Japan was to use the Premier12 in November 2019 as a final testing ground and head into the Olympics the following summer. That was before the postponement of the games in March 2020.