MLB is set to advise teams against conducting organized group workouts at team facilities, reports Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic (via Twitter). Limiting mass workouts is designed to comply with health experts’ recommendations that people avoid congregating when possible to help contain the spread of the coronavirus. However, facilities are likely to remain open for individual use on a case-by-case basis, Rosenthal adds. MLB has formally sent the advisement to the clubs, reports Joel Sherman of the New York Post (via Twitter). One player has informed ESPN’s Marly Rivera that teams are indeed now set to cease all organized group workouts.
MLB is mandating that non-roster players return home if safely possible (via Sherman). Players on a team’s 40-man roster remain eligible to stay onsite at spring camps, MLB announced, citing a lack of authority to send rostered players home under the CBA. Nevertheless, even players on the 40-man roster are expected to be barred from group workouts at club facilities.
Many teams were planning to continue working together while the sport is on pause. That no longer seems it’ll be the case, at least not at team facilities. Players are still free to work out individually and organize training groups among themselves. Some will almost certainly do so. But with experts calling for everyone to practice social distancing wherever possible, MLB (wisely) determined that mass gatherings of players are simply too dangerous at this point.
Today’s development only lends further credence to yesterday’s report that the season won’t be getting underway until May at the earliest, as Sherman points out (via Twitter).
Senioreditor
This is ridiculous. They were already quarantined.
Cubguy13
Seriously. Give it another two days and they will be banning them from going outside
Cat Mando
Senioreditor…….
Not really. Most don’t live at ST HQ’s, they have apartments/hotel rooms etc.
User 4245925809
I was under impression teams still used hotels and got entire blocks of rooms for ST, as has been the practice for decade upon decade. Only certain DSL teams had team owned living spaces for players.
Ry.the.Stunner
Not from my understanding.
What I read about the Cubs decisions during ST was that many of the players would remain in Arizona until their leases were up, implying they all dealt with their own living arrangements while at ST.
johnrealtime
“During spring training, each player is given a base weekly allowance of $320.50. But, wait, there’s more! If you live away from the club’s spring training headquarters, you are given a base supplement of $57 per week plus daily allowances of $40 for a room and $91 for meals and tips.”
Hawktattoo
They were not quarantined. Don’t know where you heard that. Any player that had contact with the Yankee minor leaguer will be now.
8
Even more Injuries for the Yanks
MoRivera 1999
It’s not an injury any more than a cyst operation (Paxton) was an injury. One is a virus the other was a medical procedure.
8
Maybe I should of said the Yankees keep getting put out of commission then.
gbs42
Yes, you should have. (“Should of?” Really?)
8
Stfu with grammaraer bs I’m typing on welfar fone
looongball
Wrong. They were not quarantined.
pasha2k
Lol Cubs! I am sure they have no plan or idea how to progress. I don’t see this epidemic resolving anytime sooner, or later. If I were to guess I would guess all star break time.
pasha2k
Just in time for Sale to be opening day pitcher!
Vizionaire
you mean an opener. a $30 mil opener.
snake120
If testing had started 10 weeks ago, maybe we would be having a different conversation right now. Wonder who is responsible for that not happening?
Maybe google? ,,,,,maybe a bafooooon?
Hawktattoo
So a test 10 weeks ago would have made them immune. It’s only exploded in last couple of weeks.
skullbreathe
You can’t escape the TDS idiots no matter where you go…
BaseballBrian
Or leftist lawmakers selling out jobs to China, who makes the testing kits in the first place?
Vizionaire
at this juncture, with critically low number of test kits, we have get them where ever they are made.
MoRivera 1999
Vizionaire
Exactly. Duh.
User 4245925809
Then complain about lack of availability and vaccine which China holds the reins on certain parts vital it seems to manufacture, thanks again to leftist policies of pushing all manufacturing overseas.
JP8
330 million Americans with 10 to 20 million undocumented immigrants and hundreds of thousands of visitors. What country anywhere is testing that many people to determine who has the virus. Answer, no one. It cant be done. There is nothing a corporation, individual, or goverment can do to stop this until a vaccien comes out. The virus can “hide” in a healthy individual for days before they show symptoms, if they ever do. Please apply some logic, think for yourself.
snake120
Logic says,,,,,,there was a pandemic research and development team in place .
Some BAFOOOON eliminated them in 2018. He is beyond an embarrassment, complete egotistical jerk. If u think for yourself and don’t listen to logic of others, that puts u in the same category.
JP8
So are we the only country in the world that had this pandemic and research team the tv told you about? If not then why are we better off than most countries in terms of dealing with it. Thinking for yourself is always the best solution.
looongball
Yes, a real bafoon did cancel the research. ….. in 2014. Get your facts straight and take your politics somewhere else.
damhikt
You need to check your facts. Pandemic research team was eliminated in 2018
its_happening
Define logic in this case, Snake.
paddyo furnichuh
It’s hard to consider either one of your opinions with any merit when neither of you can spell a fairly simple, two-syllable word. It is quite amusing.
ronnyalton
Dang, I thought I was on MLBTR but somehow ended up on Huff Post. I’ve got to stop drinking in the morning.
MoRivera 1999
Wrong. China has done well to get the spread to plateau. It’scalled flattening the curve. We can do the same if we can get the deniers to stop denying, whining and complaining and fall in line.
JP8
Which statement is wrong
koz16
It reached epidemic status in China back in late November and they did nothing to warn the rest of the world. There are two reasons why that may be. First, embarrassment and their reclusive nature. Another reason could be it was intentional to destabilize the western world.
A conventional war means mutually assured destruction. But with a population of 2 billion plus to fall back on and the fact they hold the keys to world production on so many levels they can effectively cripple the economies of most nations. It a hell of a coincidence that they have a biological research lab in Wuhan.
MoRivera 1999
Unleash the conspiracy theory kraken!
SumTingWong
the number of undocumented in America is currently between 35 and 40 million . the liberal media has been using the same number ( 11 million ) since the 1990’s. there are 11 million in California alone and 6 million of them voted in the last presidential election. also in 2016 Los Angeles County tallied one million votes ( with no names ) over the actual number of registered voters.
66TheNumberOfTheBest
You don’t need a test for a hoax.
People you don’t like saying things you don’t want to hear = confirmed hoax.
Best to just ignore until it goes away.
MoRivera 1999
Says the (non-) CDC expert in our midst.
MWeller77
Your user name should say “trolls” instead of “tolls.” What a ridiculous take.
holycowdude
If this isn’t sarcasm, it’s an idiotic statement.
troll
testing isn’t much good if you have to wait two days for results.
Rangers29
I’ve been reading articles about how, no matter what, where, or how, the Ranger are going to keep training together through this Coronavirus.
bush1
Who is this “Ranger” you speak of? Walker Texas Ranger? Lone Ranger?
cpdpoet
You mean Ranger Rick I assume…
MWeller77
Ford Ranger
troll
health ranger
ronnyalton
Power ranger
Rangers29
At this point I’m just interested in seeing how many Ranger references y’all can make.
FU Ball
I’ll be working and living my life like I normally do. The only thing changing is that I will wash my hands more. Not because of the virus but for me my family and community. We all need to contribute to society by changing and improving our personal hygiene. Remember we live in a country where sick and dirty stand out. Other countries the rich and clean stand out as the odd ones. Thank god we don’t live there.
MoRivera 1999
Wash all you want, I’m not saying that’s not a good thing. But if you are not limiting your exposure to other people (by “living life as you normally do”) you are still increasing the odds you will get/spread the virus.
Vizionaire
maybe he has been a basement dweller without any human contact.
MoRivera 1999
If so then it’s probably all good.
MoRivera 1999
Self isolation is KEY to 1) reducing your chance of getting/spreading the virus and 2) helping us to flatten the curve on the virus’s spread. It’s how other countries like China have done just that. Washing alone is not enough.
twentyforty
And limiting your personal exposure also likely delays your bodies active resistance to it…..
MoRivera 1999
Would you rather be the carrier who kills someone or stuck with your normal level of resistance? Would you rather die building up resistance?
troll
maybe the unclean are less susceptible to the virus since they live in filth
#00 Reds Fan
2020 Season is toast. predictions are 500,000 deaths in US. Baseball becomes secondary to family and friends.
JP8
12k deaths for swine flu, and you think this will be 50 times worse?
youngTank15
It sure seems like it. Either that or there covering up the fact it’s not the flu and something far worse.
looongball
Hello TRADE RUMORS. … Conduct some poles, start a contest or SOMETHING to pacify the fans out here. Some of us are baseball fans only.
mike156
I’m a bit of a politics junkie myself, but these two topics don’t mix. MLBTR should practice social isolation between the two,
DarkSide830
what exactly is there to do a contest about right now?
Marytown1
So the comments are turned off for the Yankees minor leaguer who tested positive. I do have a question to ask the editor though. Is this in Tampa or do the Yankees have a different area for their minor league? May want to add to the article if the info is available.
Dorothy_Mantooth
Baseball isn’t starting until at least June now. I am having major sports withdrawals…thank God the wife isn’t making me watch Beaches!
eephus11
100 proof is the antidote! Let’s all do our part! As a show of good faith I’ve switched to the clear exclusively!!
twentyforty
How low is the bar to be considered a “health expert” these days? Guessing on the final exam and finishing last-in-class seems where we are.
MoRivera 1999
Me? I follow THE virologists and health experts who are providing the national and global guidance through this period. Not the common schmoe who has thought about it for 15 minutes and decided it’s overblown or, worse, a hoax, or the guy with half a science degree who thinks he’s in a position to second-guess the experts and their advice.
carlos15
Manfred will find a way to make this whole thing worse.
SumTingWong
yes , that is sure correct . he will consult first with the commissioners of the NBA & the NFL, the only two people on the planet dumber than he is
George
Probably the right decision, not only for better isolation. Training to a perfect pitch without a season in sight puts more wear and tear on a body and leads to injury. Go home, be safe, and back it off to a January 1 pace until things become more clear.
I think The Jays are keeping their facilities open with a small staff for rehab and individual workouts.