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This is the nightmare scenario. Florida is one of the hottest COVID spots on the planet right now, and it’s clear baseball’s health, safety, and testing protocols aren’t preventing players from contracting the virus. Certain players have been wearing masks while on the field, specifically first basemen Rhys Hoskins and Jesus Aguilar, as well as shortstop Didi Gregorius, but most have not. Baseball is fortunate that they are able to conduct coronavirus testing whenever they need to and get rapid results. However, there is still a window of uncertainty between those tests and the results. In the case of this weekend’s series between the Phillies and Marlins, that gap was Sunday’s game, in which multiple others could have been exposed. At this point, it’s hard to see how baseball can continue. What about the hotel workers where the Marlins are staying? What about the New York Yankees, who will be coming to Philadelphia for a quick two-game series this week? How do they use the visitor’s clubhouse, knowing there was an outbreak of COVID there just days earlier? How does that series get played? How do the Marlins take the field at all for the next two weeks? No one wants the 2020 season to unravel just as it’s getting started, but it would be irresponsible to continue playing games now. The Toronto Blue Jays aren’t allowed to play in their own home stadium. Even a lowly team like the Marlins needs its best players on the field, and with this outbreak, there’s no way they can do that. What’s it going to take for MLB to decide too much is too much? When half the Yankees are out? When Mike Trout goes down? It would be a miracle of no Phillies tested positive for COVID-19 as a result of what happened this weekend, and the MLB season is in serious jeopardy. It was a valiant effort to try and get teams back on the field but, without placing the entire sport in a protective bubble, this was perhaps inevitable. It would be irresponsible to play any more games this season until the outbreak is contained and, given the fact the game is already just 60 games long (now 57), any stoppage would likely kill the season. Health and safety is paramount and, at this point, there is no way the league can assure its players, coaches and those surrounding the sport, that they can keep everyone healthy and safe as long as teams are conducting business as usual. https://www.thegoodphight.com/2020/7/27/21340081/the-marlins-have-a-covid-19-outbreak-and-the-2020-season-could-already-be-over-phillies-manfred

He was one of a few admin officials really out there on the talk show circuit pushing for school reopenings and back against China.

Well, poor Jack Parkman will now have at least eight months to make compelling arguments that Lucas Giolito Is Still An Ace.

The Marlins also played exhibition games in Atlanta last Tuesday and Wednesday. Contagion 2, Electric Boogaloo.

Like the scrum after the walk-off grand slam for Oakland accompanying the Olson game-winner the other night?

The next domino to fall has to be the Yankees/Phillies game. If they take that off the schedule, it’s pretty much acknowledging the writing is on the wall already.

ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported Monday morning that at least 10 more positive cases — eight players and two coaches — surfaced after the team’s latest round of testing on Sunday. That comes after four players received positive test results during the team’s trip to Philadelphia, including three starters finding out before Sunday’s series finale. The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal was first to report the Marlins’ game on Monday would be canceled. The team had already previously changed its flight back to Miami from Sunday night to Monday morning. They were waiting for results to come in from their latest round of COVID-19 testing Sunday morning. Results from the rapid tests normally take between 12 and 24 hours. That new flight, originally set to depart at 11:10 a.m., was canceled before 9 a.m. Monday According to MLB’s operations manual for the season, players and staff members are not allowed to travel or access club facilities following a positive test until after they have two negative tests at least 24 hours apart, show no fever for at least 72 hours, complete an antibody test and are cleared by a team physician as well as the MLB COVID-19 joint committee. A team spokesperson could not provide comment. Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article244509512.html#storylink=cpy

Apparently the Phillies decided to go ahead and play Sunday even after being informed by the Marlins about the team-wide outbreak. Players-only meeting, vote. The Marlins scratched their starting pitcher, their catcher was on the injured list, and their first baseman and right fielder were missing from Sunday’s lineup due to COVID-19 protocols.

Sure, but once they start playing and making so much contact in the paint, it will spread like wildfire across the league...otherwise, it would like playing two hand touch football, forbidding any contact, it’s just not possible in soccer and basketball. Football was over before it started. Will have to wait and see with NHL.

Not surprising at all, based on that state’s reaction this entire time (and considerable pushback against DeSantis from the Miami mayor)...it’s going to be shocking to see the NBA get through this unscathed somehow. Already having problems with players who refuse to stay where they’re supposed to 24 hours per day. Now what, they can’t let the Phillies (Marlins’ weekend opponents) play, either? And unless they can turn tests around quickly, they will need to bang NYY at Philly series starting tonight as well since results are taking 3-5 days, and by the time you get the results, it’s already out of date or potentially a false positive. And MLB can’t allow the Yankees to be sidelined for very long or any realistic payback from broadcasting rights is going to be severely limited without them, the Mets, Dodgers, Angels, Cubs, Red Sox, Phillies, Cardinals, Astros, Braves, etc.

Well, that didn’t last very long. How many more teams have to see 3-5 or more players go down before the entire day’s MLB schedule is scrubbed? 2 more teams? 3? 4?

Royals are supposedly signing Matt Harvey. Edwin Jackson, Tyson Ross, Wei-Yin Chen, Francisco Liriano and Hector Santiago are available, lol...

I have a feeling you’re going to bringing up Leury Garcia and those 7 earned runs about 1,500 times in the next two months at this rate. It was just one poor start, but he finished 2019 with two poor months out of three. Fans are going to draw any conclusions they want. It won’t be limited to positive breakouts, I’m sure you have to realize that. Getting too personally invested in players is dangerous. Been there, done that with Viciedo, Puig, Tatis and Robert. It’s easy to lose objectivity, you stop seeing the forest for the trees.

Sheets and Rutherford have negligible value. You have to hold onto Collins for 2021 (McCann/EE.) Dunning needs to prove he's 100% back, and has more value to the White Sox than anyone else. Stiever will be needed as well. They will look at waiver/FA wire first, no need to panic or make a desperation move. Heck, setting the rebuild back for a. sudden death playoff spot doesn't make sense, and we don't even know if Giolito can repeat his 2019.

Clay Buchholz SP Andrew Cashner RP / SP Marco Estrada SP Matt Harvey SP Clayton Richard SP Danny Salazar SP Aaron Sanchez SP Jason Vargas SP

Doesn’t seem fair to only get three games when some home stands are going to be 6-9 games? Guess there are bigger issues in the world than equity in charitable cardboard cutout displays...

They’ve really retooled this year with an eye on defense/athleticism and guys like Pham and Profar bringing more professional at-bats and rubbing off on everyone else. The White Sox tried to do same with Grandal and EE. Gone are all or nothing hitters like Reyes and Renfroe. The one huge advantage they have is their depth of pitching talent. Gore and Patino could be absolute monsters. Paddack is already a very good #2. Garrett Richards is back in the 94-97 mph range.

Tatis, Jr., leads off for SD and was on 40+ homer pace last season...

Ummm...all one has to do is watch David Peralta’s highlights from today to see how a real LFer looks, proper routes, jumps and positioning, etc.

Verlander hurt, out for the season...that opens up the West in both the AL and NL. Greinke getting beaten up today. Couldn’t have happened to a better team. 27 innings for Twins to hit, 27 runs. Annual JR is embarrassed on behalf of long-suffering Sox fans speech coming this week?

Chuck Garfien @ChuckGarfien And with that home run Nelson Cruz is now officially in the White Sox Killer Hall of Fame. OUR CHUCK about TWO YEARS late with that update.

Nelson Cruz making Matty Davidson against the Royals look like not a thing. Herrera, well, Greg and I called that one. We might have been wrong about Soria still being useful, but this one has had much more of a financial impact on the bullpen. That's now 26 runs in less than than 26 full innings, LOL.

Yeah, saw a younger woman in her 20’s or 30’s was battling symptoms for going on 16 weeks now.

As solid as he looks, Renteria had cautioned about not playing Moncada three days in a row at the outset. “We just want to have a day of rest,” Renteria said. “Just a complete day of rest if we can do it. We are going to try to manage it that way. We still have 57 games after this. “It’s best to try to do that right now. Give it a breath. Again, we have another day off Thursday, which will be a nice break for him, as well. We’ll continue to monitor his progression, and, hopefully, we’ll get to a point where we don’t have to really concern ourselves too much about it.” Renteria’s goal was to keep Moncada from throwing Sunday, after he was experiencing normal soreness at what would basically be the start of Summer Camp for him. The hope is for Moncada to play all three games at Cleveland.

Looks up diagrams on Google. Doesn't look at all promising, unless you wanted to see him return as a late-inning high leverage reliever who's somehow overcome his control/confidence issues.