My good friend Rich Kolker has been posting on Facebook about "fixing" baseball for the future--suggesting things like a pitch clock, but arguing against starting extra-innings with a man on second. That's all well and good....but I have a greater concern about whether baseball can even play even a shortened season this year.
We're just over a week into this "season" and already two teams--the Phillies and the Marlins--have all but suspended operations, mostly because the Marlins apparently were not as careful about isolating their players and staff as they might have been. (At last count, the Marlins had 17 players and staff test positive for COVID-19 and, as a consequence, three Phillies staffers are not infected and both clubhouses at Citizens Bank Park are off limits.) It has meant an incredible juggling of the schedules of the rest of the teams...and no idea when those missed games will be made up, if at all.
And this morning, I was struck by the fact that there are six other teams headquartered in COVID hot spots: the Tampa Bay Rays, Houston Astros, Texas Rangers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Dodgers and LA Angels. I haven't heard anything about problems with their rosters, but I think it's inevitable there will be....and then what?
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