Will The MLB Suspend The 2020 season

[Thunder]

And when COVID goes to AZ? Cancel the season again? This just doesn't make much sense IMO.

 

Well what does the plan you quoted consist of?

[a700hitter]

I am keeping my fingers crossed. Give everyone a test before they hit the clubhouses and keep them quarantined when they aren’t playing and get the season going.

[Thunder]

I'm in no rush to get sports back. I'm thoroughly enjoying my time without them. I've barely watched any of the re-runs they've been having. When they come back, I'm definitely not going to watch as much sports. All I need is college football season to go off without a hitch. Don't mess up my senior season, please

[notin]

Anyone know why they put a roster freeze in place? Does that mean all the unsigned players stay in limbo?

[mvp 78]

Anyone know why they put a roster freeze in place? Does that mean all the unsigned players stay in limbo?

 

It was so that teams wouldn't start letting players go instead of paying them.

[notin]

It was so that teams wouldn't start letting players go instead of paying them.

 

Oh ok. So it was meant to Stop Eeeville...

[mvp 78]

Oh ok. So it was meant to Stop Eeeville...

 

Yuppers

[mvp 78]

https://957thegame.radio.com/articles/opinion/sports-as-the-vanguard-of-anti-science

 

Dana White wants to have a "fight island" for his UFC cards, which until; baseball turned up was the dimmest and most arrogantly misguided idea for resumption yet proposed.

 

Fortunately for him, baseball floated an idea that would send all the teams to Arizona for a mid-May start because — well, why should Dana White get all the stick for not understanding the issue?

 

The story, provided us by ESPN's Jeff Passan, claims that MLB, the players union and the state of Arizona are focusing on a plan that would send all 30 teams to the greater Phoenix area for upwards of five months, sequestered except for the games at Chase Field and the 10 spring training ballparks has the potential imprimatur of federal health officials, which means that we have three separate groups who do not comprehend the nature of the virus besetting us all. Passan explains:

 

"The logistics to pull off such a plan would be enormous and cumbersome on the league side and require the buy-in of players, who sources expect to be skeptical of separating from their families for an indefinite amount of time — perhaps as long as 4½ months, if the inability to stem the coronavirus outbreak keeps teams from playing in their home stadiums in 2020.

 

"Still, there is hope among leadership on both sides that the combination of receiving paychecks for playing and baseball's return offering a respite to a nation beset by the devastation of COVID-19 would convince players to agree to the plan, sources said."

 

So once again, we have people in sports who think they understand more about virology than virologists. Or, and this is demonstrably worse, they don't care because the only thing that matters is playing the games with a new emphasis on the word "sacrifice."

[Kimmi]

And when COVID goes to AZ? Cancel the season again? This just doesn't make much sense IMO.

 

You would pretty much have to quarantine all the players and everyone involved for the duration of the season. That means that players, coaches, umpires, etc. would not be able to see their family members during that time. I'm not sure how feasible that is.

 

And that brings up a question that one of the writers posed. What if a player doesn't want to play? Some may have very real concerns about it.

[Fan_since_Boggs]

The idea of playing the baseball season in Arizona has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Edited April 8, 2020 by Fan_since_Boggs

[Fan_since_Boggs]

Anyone know why they put a roster freeze in place? Does that mean all the unsigned players stay in limbo?

 

I think so.

 

Man, tendering a contract to Jackie Bradley Jr. was such an awful idea, what a waste of resources.

[mvp 78]

I think so.

 

Man, tendering a contract to Jackie Bradley Jr. was such an awful idea, what a waste of resources.

 

Not great.

[Bellhorn04]

I think so.

 

Man, tendering a contract to Jackie Bradley Jr. was such an awful idea, what a waste of resources.

 

Yeah, but we made out like bandits on Mookie Betts. All thanks to this deadly plague!

[notin]

I think so.

 

Man, tendering a contract to Jackie Bradley Jr. was such an awful idea, what a waste of resources.

 

Actually maybe not.

 

There's no one left worth signing for that money, and there maybe no season anyway.

 

But if we are playing hindsight, Kevin Pillar over Yasiel Puig is confusing to me, even with Puig being more expensive...

[notin]

Yeah, but we made out like bandits on Mookie Betts. All thanks to this deadly plague!

 

Yeah Armageddon!!

[mvp 78]

Actually maybe not.

 

There's no one left worth signing for that money, and there maybe no season anyway.

 

But if we are playing hindsight, Kevin Pillar over Yasiel Puig is confusing to me, even with Puig being more expensive...

 

Puig hasn't been signed yet?

 

Could have had Puig AND Pillar for JBJ's price tag.

[mvp 78]

Or just re-sign JBJ on the open market for less than he's currently paid?

[Bellhorn04]

Nobody seems to want much to do with Puig. I think I read that the Giants offered him a one year deal and he turned it down.

[Elktonnick]

Nobody seems to want much to do with Puig. I think I read that the Giants offered him a one year deal and he turned it down.

 

 

 

Puig is just more trouble than he is worth

[Bellhorn04]

Puig is just more trouble than he is worth

 

It looks like that's the way teams are seeing it.

[notin]

Puig is just more trouble than he is worth

 

Once Sale went down, the whole "clubhouse cancer" argument became completely irrelevant...

[mvp 78]

Puig is just more trouble than he is worth

 

One year contract for a team that's not going anywhere?

[notin]

One year contract for a team that's not going anywhere?

 

If anything, full bore crazy Puig makes it worthwhile to tune in. He would be a much bigger reason to watch than a rotation that includes both Brian Johnson and Ryan Weber...

[Bellhorn04]

One year contract for a team that's not going anywhere?

 

Why incur the expense?

[Bellhorn04]

If anything, full bore crazy Puig makes it worthwhile to tune in. He would be a much bigger reason to watch than a rotation that includes both Brian Johnson and Ryan Weber...

 

It depends on your idea of entertainment. You're kind of twisted, so I get where you're coming from.

[notin]

It depends on your idea of entertainment. You're kind of twisted, so I get where you're coming from.

 

Not sure my idea of twisted is to want to see Yasiel Puig charge a few mounds and scream at a few fans. To me, "twisted" is wanting to watch Ryan Weber and Brian Johnson start 40% of the Sox games...

[notin]

Why incur the expense?

 

If the season is going nowhere anyway, to me the question here is "why not?"

 

At the very least, the Sox should have though to stockpile potentially tradable pieces at the deadline. However, position players rarely get any real value back at that point, so you need some really, really good ones capable of making a difference to make it worthwhile...

[S5Dewey]

Yasiel Pug

[notin]

Yasiel Pug

 

If not for his highly questionable attitude, Belle was a borderline Hall of Famer..

[S5Dewey]

If not for his highly questionable attitude, Belle was a borderline Hall of Famer..

 

...and if not for my lack of talent, so was I.

 

There's a reason nobody wants to take a chance on Puig, and the GM's probably know more about Puig than we do.