The Seattle Times · Mar 12, 2020
Mariners react to MLB suspending spring training games, delaying season due to coronavirus
PEORIA, Ariz. — It certainly didn’t sound like baseball had stopped, with the sound of minor league catchers’ mitts popping and pitchers throwing in the bullpens at Mariners spring training Thursday afternoon.
But despite the baseball activity going on around team CEO John Stanton, he spoke of the cessation of spring training and what is next for the Mariners players amid the risk of the coronavirus, which forced Major League Baseball to suspend spring games and delay the start of the regular season to April 9 at the soonest.
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