Major League Baseball claims it's doing whatever it can to protect its players from the coronavirus pandemic, but its actions indicate otherwise
Baseball can try to lessen the already enormous risks its teams and players take on a daily basis by keeping teams’ circles as small as possible. That should include banning trades from team to team while coronavirus is rapidly spreading in several MLB cities like Miami.
Of course teams will immediately test players who are traded from one team to another in the hopes of catching a positive a player may have caught from elsewhere before transmitting it to teammates insulated within their own team circle. But player movement, like the New York Mets’ acquisition of outfielder Billy Hamilton on Sunday morning, in the age of COVID is a luxury rather than a necessity.
Major League Baseball should be looking at every way possible to lessen the risk of contracting and spreading COVID-19, but are instead ignoring risks and pointing fingers at one another, with commissioner Rob Manfred vocally and publicly blaming players for not being safe enough. But the league can also help the players out, and limiting or eliminating player movement would be one way to minimize how many people players and teams come into contact with.
Baseball is in disarray right now and the powers that be are doing nothing to stop that. Maybe that can change before the 2020 season is stopped in its tracks.
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