COVID-19 impact on MLB season

[B-Train]

Moose is out with Covid symptoms. Cincy may have a problem -mini outbreak is feared.

[stoutdude04]

4 Marlins test positive as well. Yikes.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Yeah. Sigh. It's random and impossible to contain, and it feels like we're all just hoping to get lucky. I really, really hope MLB has set case threshholds and contingency planned beyond just the 60-player pool.

 

I hope we get baseball. But if you're looking at 6 potential cases already? In one weekend. That does not bode well....and if MLB can't contain this with all its testing and contact resources, I shudder to think how it's going to look for schools, etc.

[TURBO]

Yeah. Sigh. It's random and impossible to contain, and it feels like we're all just hoping to get lucky. I really, really hope MLB has set case threshholds and contingency planned beyond just the 60-player pool.

 

I hope we get baseball. But if you're looking at 6 potential cases already? In one weekend. That does not bode well....and if MLB can't contain this with all its testing and contact resources, I shudder to think how it's going to look for schools, etc.

 

Schools may "attempt" to re-open, but one case in a building will shut them back down again...

[BruisedCrew]

Yeah. Sigh. It's random and impossible to contain, and it feels like we're all just hoping to get lucky. I really, really hope MLB has set case threshholds and contingency planned beyond just the 60-player pool.

 

I hope we get baseball. But if you're looking at 6 potential cases already? In one weekend. That does not bode well....and if MLB can't contain this with all its testing and contact resources, I shudder to think how it's going to look for schools, etc.

 

Schools may "attempt" to re-open, but one case in a building will shut them back down again...

 

The biggest problem with schools is going to be teachers. Schools are always a hotbed for colds and flu, especially with younger kids, and they’re going to be telling kids and teachers to stay home if they feel sick. But there is already a shortage of substitute teachers, and how how many subs are going to want to step into that environment? Then let a teacher or staff member test positive, or worse get really sick, and it’s going to be hard to get people to come.

[Eye Black]

This is really bad news...

 

Passan: Eight more players and two coaches with the Miami Marlins have tested positive for COVID-19, as an outbreak has spread throughout their clubhouse and brought the total of cases in recent days to at least 14, sources familiar with the situation tell me and @JesseRogersESPN.

 

Rosenthal: Source: Marlins’ game tonight against Orioles in Miami has been cancelled. Team still in Philadelphia.

[TURBO]

oh boy, this is not what we want to see...

[OldSchoolSnapper]

If they didn't build this into the plan then they were living in a fantasy world. They had to have discussed how to handle an outbreak like this happening.

[adambr2]

Yeah, stuff like this will be going on all season, and hopefully no one is going to become seriously ill.

 

What will be interesting to see is if the early guys who have already been through this ever end up getting it again, or if their immunity lasts at least through the season.

[homer]

Well it was fun while it lasted.

[dlk9s]

Congrats to the Orioles, Rays, Yankees, Indians, Tigers, Twins, Astros, A's, Braves, Marlins, Cardinals, Cubs, Rockies, Padres on their championship seasons!

[wildcat83]

They had to know this would happen at some point. I’m not sure how they will ever make up games in such a condensed season, but this has to be discussed at some point.

 

I don’t think this will stop the season unless a player has severe symptoms. I think if a player ever gets ill to the point of a ventilator or life threatening symptoms the danger would become very real and players would bail. If all the cases amongst players are minor symptoms I think they play through it.

[dlk9s]

If all the cases amongst players are minor symptoms I think they play through it.

 

I hope not.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I don't follow. If this was going to end the season they never should have started in this first place. Something like this was extremely likely to happen. Pinning down who has it and isolating those folks is what matters. I really don't think they'll white flag it right away. The NBA has an ideal situation with team size and the ability to bubble, but with baseball and football I was expecting this.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

I don't follow. If this was going to end the season they never should have started in this first place. Something like this was extremely likely to happen. Pinning down who has it and isolating those folks is what matters. I really don't think they'll white flag it right away. The NBA has an ideal situation with team size and the ability to bubble, but with baseball and football I was expecting this.

 

Yep. MLB had to know this was going to happen. That's why each team has a 60-player roster. Still ... it has to be discouraging that it's taken less than 4 days for their to be a big outbreak. Dang this is a nasty virus!

[Eye Black]

Congrats to the Orioles, Rays, Yankees, Indians, Tigers, Twins, Astros, A's, Braves, Marlins, Cardinals, Cubs, Rockies, Padres on their championship seasons!

If there was ever a year to start out 3-0, this would have been it. It was the first time since 1954 that no team started the season 3-0.

[Eye Black]

Tonight's Yankees-Phillies game has also now been postponed while the Phillies (who played the Marlins this weekend) await their own test results that are expected later today.

[folly412]

What do they do, lift the B team up until the remaining 16 players are in the clear/those that were positive produce the two negative tests?

[djoctagone]

when there's an outbreak like this, not only does a club potentially recall or select the contract(s) of a number of players from the collective player pool at the alternate training site, but they also potentially invite more players to the collective player pool to replace those brought up from the alternate training site. that of course, has its own risks because each player invited to the ats has to clear intake, and then try to catch up to players who have been working out as a group for almost a month already.

 

just as a player is removed from the 40-man roster when placed on the covid-19 injured list, he is also removed from the 60-man cpp.

[wildcat83]

If all the cases amongst players are minor symptoms I think they play through it.

 

I hope not.

 

I'm not saying it's the correct thing to do, but it had to be part of their plan. If they were going to shut the whole season down for an outbreak they would have never started. The odds of an outbreak like this occurring had to be almost 100%. They would be completely foolish to think they would get through a 60 game schedule without an outbreak happening. So to me, if they were willing to start the season, they were willing to play through an outbreak like this.

[Eye Black]

I am curious to see how players around the league react. A third of the players on a team contracted COVID and they are now basically stuck in a visiting city with no clear plan for how they’re getting back to Miami. The players may make a lot of money relative to the rest of us, but they are also people with families and concerns for their own health and well-being. The fallout from this could certainly be greater than just whatever MLB decides.

[adambr2]

I remain shocked that people remain shocked every time there is a localized outbreak of COVID-19. I think we know well enough by now that it has and will continue to spread like wildfire and one would assume there have been contingencies put in place for this exact scenario -- ie, 60 man rosters.

 

If the season is cancelled now, the restart plan was a terrible one and doomed to fail from the start.

[DuWayne Steurer]

Watching highlights and watching a few of the games I'm still seeing players high five and the A's game where Olson hit the walk-off Grand slam everybody gathered at home plate to do the obligatory Gatorade bath and pile up at the plate. If 14 Marlins have covid, The rest of the team is at the very least potentially exposed. I know they're doing their due diligence with daily testing, but it seems like they're going to have to get a lot more stringent with actually enforcing the no handshake and high-five rules rather than just paying them lip service.

 

The Marlins are basically going to be fielding a minor league team now, as if they weren't already. Imagine if this was the Brewers and it was yelich, hiura, woodruff, hader, and then seven other random guys. You could pretty much stick a fork in the season right there.

[DuWayne Steurer]

I remain shocked that people remain shocked every time there is a localized outbreak of COVID-19. I think we know well enough by now that it has and will continue to spread like wildfire and one would assume there have been contingencies put in place for this exact scenario -- ie, 60 man rosters.

 

If the season is cancelled now, the restart plan was a terrible one and doomed to fail from the start.

 

I'm betting that Manfred and the owners know that there is a chance that this season doesn't make it all the way through. That doesn't mean the plan was doomed from the start, but there is a less than 100% chance that this season makes it to completion.

[adambr2]

Watching highlights and watching a few of the games I'm still seeing players high five and the A's game where Olson hit the walk-off Grand slam everybody gathered at home plate to do the obligatory Gatorade bath and pile up at the plate. If 14 Marlins have covid, The rest of the team is at the very least potentially exposed. I know they're doing their due diligence with daily testing, but it seems like they're going to have to get a lot more stringent with actually enforcing the no handshake and high-five rules rather than just paying them lip service.

 

The Marlins are basically going to be fielding a minor league team now, as if they weren't already. Imagine if this was the Brewers and it was yelich, hiura, woodruff, hader, and then seven other random guys. You could pretty much stick a fork in the season right there.

 

Stinks, but the consensus is that our season was over in September last year when Yelich broke his kneecap. We proceeded to play our best ball of the year. I believe we were missing Woodruff as well.

 

In this case at least when guys are lost they won't be lost for ths season and (should?) not have to worry about COVID individually for the rest of the season.