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MLB pushes back opening day indefinitely, eliminates informal team workouts

Cardinals outfielder Lane Thomas exits the team's spring training clubhouse in Jupiter, Fla. (AP Photo)

St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Kolten Wong leaves the team's spring training baseball clubhouse with a box and bats, Friday, March 13, 2020, in Jupiter, Fla. Major League Baseball has delayed the start of its season by at least two weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak as well as suspended the rest of its spring training game schedule. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Julio Cortez

JUPITER, Fla. — The last Cardinal to walk off the fields of Jupiter, Florida, on Monday before Major League Baseball nixed even informal team workouts and left players carrying their bags, gloves, bats and loads of uncertainty away from the clubhouse was closer Jordan Hicks.