The economy of baseball has not been left unscathed to the Coronavirus pandemic. As reported by Reuters, the Miami Marlins and the Tampa Bay rays will begin the process of furloughing employees while the state of Major League Baseball remains in flux at the moment.
There is still talk of play resuming, hopefully, sometime around the start of July, but in the meantime, the Marlins, one of the league’s smallest markets, is being hit by these hard times like the Rays and 28 other MLB teams.
Per the story, “Further south in Miami, the Marlins will be furloughing about one-third of their business operations staff beginning by mid-May, the Miami Herald reported.