As MLB debates how—and whether—to return amid the coronavirus pandemic, everyone wants to know how the people involved feel. Officials and reporters alike ask players and coaches about the “Arizona plan,” the suggestion that the league could quarantine all participants in a sort of biodome in metropolitan Phoenix, shuttling them from hotels to ballparks and back.
Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw said he was unwilling to spend months away from his family. Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado said he was open to the idea. Angels manager Joe Maddon said he would play on the moon.
But there are other people who would take the field—and the risks.