MLB and the MLBPA failed to come to an agreement on a 2020 season, so MLB owners imposed their 60-game scheme of a baseball season for this year and while most of the details about roster sizes, rules and who teams will play have been hammered out the details that are still most vague could pose the biggest threat to a season that hasn’t even started yet: what happens if there is a COVID-19 outbreak on a team?
ESPN’s Jeff Passan started peeling back the layers of that question a bit today and I highly recommend you read the whole article to get a better idea of the types of questions teams may face between now and October, but this jumped out at me:
While the processes in place to handle individual positive cases are dutiful and will be reinforced with even more specificity by each team, the language regarding the actions the sport would take with a deluge of cases is general and vague.