The strange, ongoing experiment of professional sports in the year of COVID-19 is giving the public quite a bit of real-time data on what is working and what isn't working. Player safety is, and should be, on the forefront of everyone’s minds at the moment, and the alarming COVID outbreak in MLB’s Miami Marlins organization just three-games into their season serves as a stark reminder that navigating this time of uncertainty may be the most complicated undertaking we have witnessed in sports.
The NBA and NHL have gone with respective one and two “bubble” site approaches for their playoffs while MLB has forsaken the bubble approach for their condensed regular season.