Major League Baseball and its players ironed out details of a 60-game season that will start in earnest late next month, while the country deals with an ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Despite it taking forever in an ugly, often-public negotiation, the implemented season and agreement on health and safety protocols may have been the easy part.
Execution will be altogether different.
A’s general manager David Forst discussed the protocols and challenges inherent to getting this unique campaign off the ground in a Wednesday video conference with local reporters.
His main message: this will be a difficult task.