While Major League Baseball is determined to play for a frayed season, Washington Nationals players have taken unprecedented steps by voting in opposition to a Florida game for a weekend series opposed to the Miami Marlins, necessarily in bold league to show them a position where the crown novel has spread.
The player vote was shown through a user with direct knowledge, who spoke with USA TODAY Sports under anonymity due to the delicate nature of the subject. It was first reported through The Athletic.
MLB did not immediately issue a response to the vote.
The action only among players and does not necessarily reflect the position of the organization. But it was made public on Tuesday, on the same day, the Miami Marlins’ COVID-19 outbreak grew to 15 players and two staff members. And that comes a day after Nationals manager Dave Martinez said he was “afraid” to participate in the pandemic, noting that his fear had gone from “about 8 to twelve.”
As for traveling to Miami, Martinez said of MLB: “I hope you make the decision. That’s all I’m going to say.
Martinez missed three games in September 2019 after undergoing cardiac catheterization, and at least one member of the Nationals, closer Sean Doolittle, has an immediate circle of relatives who is self-immune.
The Marlins’ COVID-19 outbreak forced the postponement of their two-game series in Miami as opposed to the Baltimore Orioles, and have been quarantined in Philadelphia since positive tests emerged: 4 this weekend, nine more on Monday and 4 on Tuesday. to the light. They are expected to play a series of two games in Baltimore starting Wednesday and will want significant player reinforcements at their chosen educational facilities in Jupiter, Florida.
As a component of the protocols for the 2020 season, MLB groups have a group of 60 players, hoping to maintain viable lists in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak. The group of 60 players can get additions if a player is positive.
If playing a home game on the go is not ideal, it is already a truth for at least one team. The Toronto Blue Jays, who were denied games through the Canadian government at the Rogers Centre, will play their first “home game” on Wednesday in Washington and play up to five of those games before renovations at their transitional residence, their class, are completed. AAA Stadium in Buffalo.