Major League Baseball announced Thursday that it would be suspending the remainder of spring training and delaying the opening of the regular season by at least two weeks due to concerns over COVID-19. Shortly thereafter, Minor League Baseball released a similar statement to explain that their regular season would be stuck in an indefinite delay, with the resumption of competition nowhere in sight. Then came the news that spring camps were being shut down, with most Cubs players sticking around through the end of the month.
The same isn’t necessarily true for the minor leaguers, who know only that they are being flown out of Arizona on Sunday morning.