A lot has been made (including by me!) about how detailed and thorough and well-intentioned MLB’s 2020 Operations Manual is. All those diagrams and subsections and footnotes creating the impression that the series of protocols are sufficient for outthinking the coronavirus pandemic. But just because a plan is long doesn’t mean it’ll work. Not all plans are equally viable.
Here are some facts:
One of these plans is not working as well as the others. The difference, at least over the past week, is whether or not there’s a so-called bubble system sequestering athletes as a way of mitigating spread from the community.