The Miami Marlins season suspended through Major League Baseball amid a COVID-19 case outbreak that led to 15 players and two staff members testing positive From Friday to Tuesday, according to a baseball official with direct knowledge of the decision.
The official spoke with USA TODAY Sports on condition of anonymity because it has been officially announced.
The action is a remarkable but pragmatic breakup, separating one of the 30 MLB groups looking to play a 60-game schedule through a pandemic, with a possible final result that the Marlins, and their parties in long-term war, do not play all the time. Season.
The Marlins outbreak had already caused a handful of postponements On Monday and Tuesday: two Marlin games opposed to the Baltimore Orioles in Miami and a couple of Phillies-New York Yankees games in Philadelphia, the Marlins’ three-weekend series.
From now on, the Marlins will have up to seven games to catch up: 4 against the Orioles and three against the Washington Nationals, their weekend war games in Miami.
Hours before the Marlins’ season suspension, Nationals players voted not to go to Miami for the weekend games, expressing fear among the players and manager Dave Martinez, who said he “went from an 8 to a 12” in the wake of the Marlins. ‘ outbreak.
That point is now debatable, as the Marlins would probably not have a game scheduled until next Tuesday at home as opposed to the Phillies, they can use Monday’s day off as a recovery date.
Maybe it’s with a whole new team, basically.
Fifteen Marlins will be out of the game for no less than two weeks and more, given the return times of the more than 100 MLB players who tested positive for COVID-19. Each player will have to score negative twice during an era of more than 24 hours to return.
The Marlins tested as their first player, Miguel Rojas, beginner catcher Jorge Alfaro, pitcher José Ureña and designated forwards and hitters Garrett Cooper and Harold Ramirez.
You will have to take a lot advantage of your group of players; According to MLB protocols for the 2020 season, groups are allowed 60 eligible players, and all 27 are not members of the primary league team based on the education site.
Mixing ostensibly quarantined players from your choice site with players who were close to an extended occasion in the big league clubhouse may have been a recipe for disaster, as negative tests for the coronavirus do not ensure that the user is infected.
It remains to be noted whether MLB and the Marlins are adopting a competitive but appropriate technique for quading remaining primary league players for 10 to 14 days, in accordance with the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.