My Bucs Dugout cohort Matt Clark wrote eloquently just a few days ago about the impact the coronavirus COVID-19 is having on the MLB and the Pirates and general, but I had just a few thoughts to add. As Matt noted, this is truly uncharted territory, and there’s no telling what’s going to happen from here.
MLB announced it would delay the start of the 2020 regular season by at least two weeks and suspended spring training as well. And then Sunday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that MLB had sent out a memo encouraging players who are not rehabbing from injuries to leave their spring training camps and go home, in an attempt to have players keep their distance from one another.