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  • Major League Baseball Expected to Suspend Spring Training, Delay Season

    Parker Hageman

    By Parker Hageman

    According to Jeff Passan, Major League Baseball ownership groups expect Major League Baseball to join multiple sports leagues in canceling their events to limit the spread of COVID-19. It is not clear when the announcement will come, but would likely include immediate suspension of remaining spring training games and a delay of the 2020 season.

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    The reports comes after MLB ownership groups had a league-wide conference call with Commissioner Rob Manfred this morning. This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

    MLB's official statement:

    Following a call with the 30 Clubs, and after consultation with the Major League Baseball Players Association, Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. today announced that MLB has decided to suspend Spring Training games and to delay the start of the 2020 regular season by at least two weeks due to the national emergency created by the coronavirus pandemic. This action is being taken in the interests of the safety and well-being of our players, Clubs and our millions of loyal fans.

    MLB will continue to evaluate ongoing events leading up to the start of the season. Guidance related to daily operations and workouts will be relayed to Clubs in the coming days. As of 4:00 p.m. (ET) today, forthcoming Spring Training games have been cancelled, and 2020 World Baseball Classic Qualifier games in Tucson, Arizona have been postponed indefinitely.

    MLB and the Clubs have been preparing a variety of contingency plans regarding the 2020 regular season schedule. MLB will announce the effects on the schedule at an appropriate time and will remain flexible as events warrant, with the hope of resuming normal operations as soon as possible.

    Nothing is more important to us than the health and safety of our players, employees and fans. MLB will continue to undertake the precautions and best practices recommended by public health experts. We send our best wishes to all individuals and communities that have been impacted by coronavirus.

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    Dantes929

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    Why do every and all viruses come into the United Sates. It's just sucks we allow them all in. None of them, ever have originated here.

    Widely believed that the Spanish Flu originated on an army base in Kansas.

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    Bomba2026

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    I live to watch sports but they gotta do what they gotta do....I work in a Hoarders Paradise, I mean a grocery store and it has been mass hysteria...Some lady told me I could make Hand Sanitizer out of Beer! haha haha uh, oh hell no. Not wasting that in case there is a run on beer!

     

    I will miss the NCAA Brackets and wait for Baseball and for cripes sake quit eating weird f#@(&!%g food!!

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    Cap'n Piranha

    Cap'n Piranha 5,641

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    The captains numbers are false. The current mortality rate is ~3.6%. Using his numbers there is 4% mortality rate in the US! To downplay the severity by using false numbers is shameful. Someone should be demoted

     

    I'm confused--you're saying my numbers are false and that I'm downplaying the severity, yet the number I gave (based on actual news reports) is higher than the number you quoted.  Therefore, if anything, I'm "upplaying" the severity.

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    Botee

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    Or it could be like China, which is now (if Chinese sources can be trusted, which I'll grant is a big if) in steep decline--only 24 new cases for the entirety of mainland China yesterday. China had to keep things under lock for about 6 weeks to get this result, but it's a good result--80k total cases and 3.2k deaths; the US equivalent would be 19k cases and 760 deaths. That would be a 0.005% chance of a US citizen being infected, or one out of every 17k people, and a mortality chance of 0.0002% (1 out of every 434k people).

     

    The coronavirus should certainly be taken seriously, and suspending sporting events is part of that, but from an infection/death standpoint, the coronavirus is likely to be of far less impact than the annual winter flu is every single year.

    In your example you stated 19,000 cases and 760 deaths. 760÷19,000=.04=4/100=4% NOT .0002%

    4% is much bigger than .0002%

    4% is a one in 25 chance.

    This ain't the flu and to dismiss it as such is worse than foolish, it is dangerous

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    Cap'n Piranha

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    In your example you stated 19,000 cases and 760 deaths. 760÷19,000=.04=4/100=4% NOT .0002%
    4% is much bigger than .0002%
    4% is a one in 25 chance.
    This ain't the flu and to dismiss it as such is worse than foolish, it is dangerous

     

    Ok, you misunderstood.  The .0002% chance is not the chance of dying if you contract the illness, it's the chance of dying from the illness if you live in the United Sates (assuming the rates of infection and deaths are identical to the reported numbers from China).  760 divided by 330M is .0002%.  It's the same rate as one person in the entire city of Minneapolis dying.

     

    I'm fully in support of people being careful, limiting or eliminating contact with others, self-quarantining when necessary, and forcing the quarantine of people who won't self-quarantine, but to pretend like coronavirus is Ebola or Bubonic Plague, or even the Spanish Flu is hysterical and breeds panic, which is the greater danger in the current climate.

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    Mr. Brooks

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    Ok, you misunderstood. The .0002% chance is not the chance of dying if you contract the illness, it's the chance of dying from the illness if you live in the United Sates (assuming the rates of infection and deaths are identical to the reported numbers from China). 760 divided by 330M is .0002%. It's the same rate as one person in the entire city of Minneapolis dying.

     

    I'm fully in support of people being careful, limiting or eliminating contact with others, self-quarantining when necessary, and forcing the quarantine of people who won't self-quarantine, but to pretend like coronavirus is Ebola or Bubonic Plague, or even the Spanish Flu is hysterical and breeds panic, which is the greater danger in the current climate.

    But the only way you keep infection rates as low as your example suggests is by taking the drastic measures that you consider "panicking".

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