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Hate Blake Snell if you must, but every athlete has a choice to make on coronavirus risk

The goal for many workers is to have enough money to no longer be a worker. Take this job and shove it.

Blake Snell is in the middle of a five-year, $50 million contract to pitch for the Tampa Bay Rays, so by virtually any standard he has achieved that. To the 2018 Cy Young Award winner go the spoils.

And it’s why Snell went on his Twitch channel Wednesday and essentially said an abbreviated season with a salary cut wasn’t going to pay enough for him to play ball this season.