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Coronavirus and the changing landscape of MLB journalism

Such is the world as we know it today. On Monday, Major League Baseball announced that its teams would have the clubhouses no longer accessible by media in hopes of keeping the coronavirus away from the players. In the span of a few hours, how we did our jobs covering sports for you, the reader, changed.

It doesn’t mean we in the media can’t do our jobs. It just means we have to do them a little differently and adapt. It also means that, for now, we have to put the potential safety of the players we talk with regularly above how we talked with them a few days ago.