In case you missed it, there was actual live baseball played over the past week at the Perfect Game National Showcase. The event was held in Hoover, AL, at the site of the former Birmingham Barons ballpark, and spectators and staff wore masks and maintained social distance, as did anyone not actively playing in a game or on the field. With 300 players in attendance, it will be worth monitoring over the next couple of weeks how many—if any—positive cases come from the event, which could give us some baseline info about transmission rates in a purely baseball environment to add to the data coming out of places that have resumed baseball overseas, as well as virus outbreaks we’ve seen in camp environments that have been more social.
Standouts from the 2020 Perfect Game National Showcase
