The MLB operations manual for this year is very similar to the one from last year—more than one hundred pages of logistical instructions that would have been unthinkable not so long ago but now simply represent the price of daily life in a pandemic. There are a few differences, however, laid out in the table of contents. The 2021 version has two sections that the 2020 one did not: “COVID-19 Vaccinations” and “Mental Health Resources.”
In other words, an acknowledgment that there is now an obvious light at the end of this precarious tunnel, and an acknowledgement that people could still very much use some additional help.