Here we stand, barely three days into the 2020 MLB season, with the Cincinnati Reds having won one, and lost one game. Two games played during this attempt at navigating a pandemic while playing baseball, and the club has already seen one player - late addition Matt Davidson - test positive for COVID-19.
We don’t yet know a lot of things these days. The testing system is flawed, the virus impacts different people in wildly different ways, any most people that get it hardly even know they’ve got it. But in a system of protocols aimed at doing everything possible to detect any possible outbreaks before they can spread, an abundance of caution must be used, as we are talking about athletes attempting to ply their trade playing baseball - not PPE coated professionals who are doing everything possible not to get the virus.