Peter Bayer was sitting in his car, waiting for an alert that would tell him where to go next. He’d been doing a lot of that lately, both in his personal life and his now uncertain baseball life.
It was about 3:30 p.m., the busy hours were ahead of him, he figured. People in Arizona were hunkering down at home in coronavirus self-isolation and opting to have food delivered. He got the buzz from DoorDash and it sent him to an Italian restaurant. Bayer isn’t the first person to turn to the gig economy during the coronavirus outbreak, and he won’t be the last.