The Miami Marlins’ season hovered through the major leagues amid an outbreak of COVID-19 cases that resulted in 15 players and two staff members positive from Friday to Tuesday, the league announced Tuesday afternoon.
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.
“Health and protection protocols have been designed with complicated cases like the Marlins in mind,” MLB said in a statement. “The reaction described in the MLB-MLBPA Joint Operations Manual was triggered without delay after the wisdom of the positive case group, adding contact and quarantine search and proof of all known close contacts.
“The Marlins who tested positive stay away and receive attention.”
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MLB noted that no other club had a positive COVID-19 check in the week that began Friday; In the last seven-day cycle, 4 players and two members tested positive for more than 10,000 samples, representing a positivity rate of 0.05%.
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.
“After receiving more control effects on our major league team this morning, we contacted the Commissioner for fear of the physical condition and protection of our team, as well as our opponents,” Marlins CEO Derek Jeter said in a statement.
“We can’t wait to return to Miami, where we had a healthy and successful spring 2.0 before we hit the road and face challenges.”
Meanwhile, more and more pieces have begun to move to accommodate groups that block as many games as you can imagine on a 66-day schedule.
The Yankees, also stranded in Philadelphia from Monday, will now go south and play two games opposed to the Orioles at Camden Yards on Wednesday and Thursday. That leaves the Phillies without an opponent until Friday, and with four games opposed to the Yankees to catch up.
Monday is a day off for the Marlins, Nationals and Phillies, while the Orioles and Yankees were to play in Baltimore. One may believe that the Marlins can use Monday to play a make-up game (or double) opposed to the Nationals or Orioles, thus freeing the Phillies and Yankees to catch up on one or two of their four postponed games this week.
Of course, all this flexibility is greatly facilitated by the fact that matches are played without the presence of fans, which makes key points like him and the opponent practically irrelevant.
This is important, because the Marlins may not have a space they can return to.
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, starting catcher Jorge Alfaro, pitcher José Ureña, designated hitter Garrett Cooper and outfielder Harold Ramirez.
Miami Mayor Carlos Giménez advised at a news convention Tuesday that all Marlins players should be quarantined for 14 days when they return to South Florida. The highest authority may be living with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Either way, those Marlins will look a little like the club that won two of their first 3 games of the year.
You will have to get a lot out of your reserve reservation; 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 near an extended occasion in the Major League Baseball 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.