Verlander and his wife Kate Upton just announced that they will donate their entire weekly salary to different organizations. Very nice move; despise him as a player, it seems he is a good human (which is more important). Hopefully others will follow.
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Filling in the schedule with double headers is not a viable option.
That will result in more injuries and poorer overall play as pitchers take the mound on very short rest.
This only works if your idea of baseball is a bunch of home runs and a ton of rotator cuff and Tommy John procedures until New Year's Eve.
Very, very, VERY bad idea.
That will result in more injuries and poorer overall play as pitchers take the mound on very short rest.
This only works if your idea of baseball is a bunch of home runs and a ton of rotator cuff and Tommy John procedures until New Year's Eve.
Very, very, VERY bad idea.
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MLB might have a plan to play in May.
www.espn.com
Major League Baseball and its players are increasingly focused on a plan that could allow them to start the season as early as May and has the support of high-ranking federal public health officials who believe the league can safely operate amid the coronavirus pandemic, sources told ESPN.
Though the plan has a number of potential stumbling blocks, it has emerged above other options as the likeliest to work and has been embraced by MLB and MLB Players Association leadership, who are buoyed by the possibility of baseball's return and the backing of federal officials, sources said.
The plan, sources said, would dictate all 30 teams play games at stadiums with no fans in the greater Phoenix area, including the Arizona Diamondbacks' Chase Field, 10 spring training facilities and perhaps other nearby fields. Players, coaching staffs and other essential personnel would be sequestered at local hotels, where they would live in relative isolation, and travel only to the stadium and back, sources said. Federal officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Health have been supportive of a plan that would adhere to strict isolation, promote social distancing and allow MLB to become the first professional sport to return.
The May return date depends on a number of concerns being allayed, and some officials believe a June opening day could be more realistic, sources said. Most important would be a significant increase in available coronavirus tests with a quick turnaround time, which sources familiar with the plan believe will happen by early May and allow MLB's testing not to diminish access for the general public.
Sources: MLB, players eye May return in Arizona
Major League Baseball and its players are increasingly focused on a plan that could allow them to start the season as early as May in greater Phoenix and has the support of high-ranking federal public health officials, sources told ESPN.
Though the plan has a number of potential stumbling blocks, it has emerged above other options as the likeliest to work and has been embraced by MLB and MLB Players Association leadership, who are buoyed by the possibility of baseball's return and the backing of federal officials, sources said.
The plan, sources said, would dictate all 30 teams play games at stadiums with no fans in the greater Phoenix area, including the Arizona Diamondbacks' Chase Field, 10 spring training facilities and perhaps other nearby fields. Players, coaching staffs and other essential personnel would be sequestered at local hotels, where they would live in relative isolation, and travel only to the stadium and back, sources said. Federal officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Health have been supportive of a plan that would adhere to strict isolation, promote social distancing and allow MLB to become the first professional sport to return.
The May return date depends on a number of concerns being allayed, and some officials believe a June opening day could be more realistic, sources said. Most important would be a significant increase in available coronavirus tests with a quick turnaround time, which sources familiar with the plan believe will happen by early May and allow MLB's testing not to diminish access for the general public.
I guess they can call it the Major League Cluster, or MLC.
Considering the lack of available testing for the population at large, transmission of the virus even in closed environments where people have been isolated amongst themselves as well as from others, and the dismissal of the risk even a single positive test poses, I can hear the voice of money and desperation talking.
As a practical matter, they may disallow mound visits, and have electronic umpiring, but what about baserunners? Will they automatically be granted the base, and can't be held on or tagged out because the defender has to maintain their distance?
Will George Constanza come up with uniforms and helmets that are virus-resistant as well as comfortable?
Is what they propose desirable, or even baseball?
Considering the lack of available testing for the population at large, transmission of the virus even in closed environments where people have been isolated amongst themselves as well as from others, and the dismissal of the risk even a single positive test poses, I can hear the voice of money and desperation talking.
As a practical matter, they may disallow mound visits, and have electronic umpiring, but what about baserunners? Will they automatically be granted the base, and can't be held on or tagged out because the defender has to maintain their distance?
Will George Constanza come up with uniforms and helmets that are virus-resistant as well as comfortable?
Is what they propose desirable, or even baseball?
MLB might have a plan to play in May.
Major League Baseball and its players are increasingly focused on a plan that could allow them to start the season as early as May and has the support of high-ranking federal public health officials who believe the league can safely operate amid the coronavirus pandemic, sources told ESPN.Sources: MLB, players eye May return in Arizona
Major League Baseball and its players are increasingly focused on a plan that could allow them to start the season as early as May in greater Phoenix and has the support of high-ranking federal public health officials, sources told ESPN.
Though the plan has a number of potential stumbling blocks, it has emerged above other options as the likeliest to work and has been embraced by MLB and MLB Players Association leadership, who are buoyed by the possibility of baseball's return and the backing of federal officials, sources said.
The plan, sources said, would dictate all 30 teams play games at stadiums with no fans in the greater Phoenix area, including the Arizona Diamondbacks' Chase Field, 10 spring training facilities and perhaps other nearby fields. Players, coaching staffs and other essential personnel would be sequestered at local hotels, where they would live in relative isolation, and travel only to the stadium and back, sources said. Federal officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Health have been supportive of a plan that would adhere to strict isolation, promote social distancing and allow MLB to become the first professional sport to return.
The May return date depends on a number of concerns being allayed, and some officials believe a June opening day could be more realistic, sources said. Most important would be a significant increase in available coronavirus tests with a quick turnaround time, which sources familiar with the plan believe will happen by early May and allow MLB's testing not to diminish access for the general public.
If this is their plan, they should just wait. If possible, start it around the All-Star break, and go forward from there. Don't try and schedule double headers to make up games. Go forward with a 80 game schedule.
It is a ridiculous plan. Unfortunately it makes sense for a game that is a mere shadow of what it used to be.
This is a silly plan but not as inane as the one suggesting to fill up the schedule with double headers.
I have no idea which super-genius came up with that nonsense.
Note that the MLB's official statement a few hours ago (source: MLB) about this potential one-location contigency plan is very muted:
and specifically denies working with the MLBPA on any plans. Basically, the above proposed "solution" is one of the possible ideas from the owners.
Any plan would have to be approved by the MLBPA. Likely the television broadcast rights holders would exert significant influence on any plan.
I have no idea which super-genius came up with that nonsense.
Note that the MLB's official statement a few hours ago (source: MLB) about this potential one-location contigency plan is very muted:
and specifically denies working with the MLBPA on any plans. Basically, the above proposed "solution" is one of the possible ideas from the owners.
Any plan would have to be approved by the MLBPA. Likely the television broadcast rights holders would exert significant influence on any plan.
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Has anyone mentioned the Japanese plan?
Virus runs its course sooner in Japan. Japanese teams play day games, MLB games follow in the evenings in Japanese stadiums. Heard this on SC.
Virus runs its course sooner in Japan. Japanese teams play day games, MLB games follow in the evenings in Japanese stadiums. Heard this on SC.
Meanwhile in Cooperstown, home of baseball and its Hall of Fame, the statue over in Cooper Park of the son of the town's founder, American writer James Fenimore Cooper, currently wears a mask and sports a bottle of hand sanitizer! Guess Cooperstown's hoping for a plateau and a resumption of baseball real soon now too...
Did you guys hear about this?
www.msn.com
Snippet from the article:
MLB discussing plan to start season in late June, playing in home stadiums with realigned league
MLB is optimistic this week that it can start the 2020 season in late June, playing at least 100 regular-season games.
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Did you guys hear about this?
MLB discussing plan to start season in late June, playing in home stadiums with realigned league
MLB is optimistic this week that it can start the 2020 season in late June, playing at least 100 regular-season games.
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Another snippet from end of that article:
“This is going to be a season,’’ one of the executives said, “like we’ve never seen.
“But that’s fine. It’s at least a season.’’
Hmm. A season with more asterisks in the record books than any other season?
Ahhh man... Do you know how good that sounds right now. A good hot dog, cold beer, and the sound of summer baseball playing out in front you. Sigh.
I know... baseball just feels like the essence of America in the summertime. When we got old enough to ride a bike some distance, the next stop for all the kids on my block was the triple-A Rochester Red Wings games back in the day. And it was a kick later on as an aunt for me to take young kinfolk over to the Penn League games in Oneonta while that city still hosted a farm team for the Detroit Tigers.
Baseball on the radio (yeah, at work) or baseball on TV after work became a summer thing for my siblings and me as we grew up, and for lots of my colleagues over the years. The noise of the crowd after the crack of a bat on a home run ball was a huge part of the draw.
How can it be the same to listen to or watch games played in empty arenas? It will seem strange to be able to hear a pin drop --or players chatting in the dugouts-- in between pitches.
Start in June with no fans. Then slowly let fans in a limited capacity when the circumstances allow it. I know an opening day with no fans is a bummer, but it's not the NBA, long seasons is what makes MLB unique. Anything below 100 games feels like it's not worth doing at all.
Welp... Because of the coronavirus, the Hall of Fame 2020 inductions are pushed out to happen along with 2021 inductions. So no celebrations this year in Cooperstown. No surprise there I guess.
www.thedailystar.com
Baseball Hall of Fame cancels 2020 Induction Weekend
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced Wednesday, April 29, that its Board of Directors voted unanimously to cancel the 2020 Hall of Fame Induction Weekend events, citing
