Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association came to an agreement Monday night to play this year’s postseason in “bubble” environments in San Diego, Anaheim, Los Angeles, Houston and Arlington, Texas, after first-round games in the home parks of teams with the better records. Before I get to the schedule, Joel Sherman of the New York Post laid out the bubble scenarios on Twitter better than I’ve seen elsewhere, so I’m going to post his entire explanatory sequence of tweets here:
Heard the plan right now:
--players on contending teams will have to quarantine at a hotel in the final 7 days of the reg season
—daily COVID testing
—players can elect to leave the hotel if their team is eliminated— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) September 15, 2020Just to be clear on the last-week quarantine: all teams in contention will have to move into a hotel (even at home).