On Thursday, Major League Baseball announced that they would be suspending Spring Training. League offices also announced that the start of the regular season will be delayed by at least two weeks. With that, normal life for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the rest of baseball, just as it has for much of America, came to a grinding halt due to the coronavirus.
When these measures, which are 100% the correct move by baseball, were announced there were a lot of question about what would come next. Would players remain at their team’s Spring Training facilities?