Major League Baseball reportedly told its players to agree that it would prefer players from competing groups to be locked up in hotels than return home and their families in the last week of the normal season.
Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reported the news and noted that “the concept of such quarantine would be for players to go through the era of thick coVID-19 incubation before the start of the expanded playoffs.”
MLB doesn’t yet know if he’ll play his playoffs in a bubble-like environment from the start or after the most productive of the 3 wild-wild rounds.
“If you pass the house to your family, you run a risk,” said an expert, through Rosenthal. “Even if you do everything right, you can’t do what other people you live with do.”
Rosenthal reported that the union is also motivated to end the playoffs and “believed to be open to anyone who helps.”
The report states that players will be tested for COVID-19 each and every day instead of each and every day of the playoffs. In addition, the league is discussing the option of performing the American League playoffs in Southern California parks such as Dodger Stadium, Angel Stadium in Anaheim and Petco Park and the National League playoffs in Texas, Minute Maid Park and Globe Life Field.
Under such a plan, the World Series would be in Arlington, nothing has been approved or finalized.
Baseball season continued with the pandemic, but not without problems.
There have been epidemics within the St. Louis Cardinals and Miami Marlins organizations that have led to delays and schedule adjustments. In fact, the Cardinals’ first game after the July 29 loss to the Minnesota Twins on August 15, while the Marlins’ first game after the July 26 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on August 4.
Partly to compensate for lost matches and because such epidemics can happen again, the league replaced the doubles in seven rounds of fight.
Another major replacement this year has been to make the playoffs bigger than 8 groups consistent with the league. However, if you can carry out this proposed plan of hotel-locked players in the last week of the season, you may have the wild card tricks in the stadiums of the most sensible seed house.
This would mean less in the playoff bubbles when they open in the next circular and less threat of COVID-19 spread.