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MLB is trying to get the season started. Controlled environments, all kinds of precautions.

Now this.

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Major League Baseball is seeing its first coronavirus cancellations since the restart of the 2020 season.

An outbreak of COVID-19 spread throughout the Miami Marlins clubhouse, bringing the total cases in recent days to at least 13, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan and Jesse Rogers. As a result, the Marlins postponed their home opener, scheduled for Monday night; the game between the New York Yankees and the Phillies in Philadelphia -- where the Marlins played over the weekend -- also was postponed.

So what does this situation mean for the Marlins and MLB? We asked our experts to weigh in on some of the biggest questions.


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What does the Marlins' outbreak mean for the state of the MLB season as a whole?

We'll only be able to answer this accurately with hindsight -- though it looms as a possibility that Monday's news is an inflection point with ramifications not only across the rest of this season, but across all the major team sports endeavoring to attempt what MLB already is trying to pull off. For now, this is baseball's first big test of its ability to stage the 2020 season, and it is more than a little disheartening that it came with just 92 games in the books. Baseball couldn't get through its first weekend without a possible nightmare scenario emerging.


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Why were the Marlins allowed to play the Phillies on Sunday after multiple players tested positive?

There is no rule in place that players can't participate as they await test results. But playing could have been a mistake.

That Miami had multiple positives before Sunday's game and the contest went on as scheduled is concerning. Perhaps any time that happens, it should trigger an automatic postponement. Another red flag here is that even if you test every day, people do not necessarily exhibit symptoms or trigger positive tests right away. Inevitably, infected players will take the field without anyone, including themselves, knowing that they have contracted the virus.

To say that this lag is problematic would be massive understatement. But of course, that's where all of the other protocols -- masking, distancing, sanitizing -- take on added importance. The one step baseball hasn't taken is to make mask-wearing mandatory at all times, even on the field. And while that could be a next step, we don't actually yet know how the Marlins' outbreak began and if some kind of on-field mask mandate would have made a difference. Where did it happen? Airport? Airplane? Bus ride? Hotel lobby? Restroom?


https://www.espn.com/mlb/story...s-outbreak-means-mlb

And we think we can open schools?


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Every sport has a coronavirus plan. MLB’s lasted four days.

Forget about the NFL season; it’s never going to happen.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/spor...-BB17fnQj?li=BBnb7Kz


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The English Premier League had a short, game packed season. Seemed to be successful. No fans allowed.
Crowd sound was added to the TV broadcasts.

Major League Soccer is having a tournament in Orlando. No fans allowed.


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It's interesting to see how other countries have addressed the problem. In Australia they did a bit of a hybrid for Aussie rules football--started the season with 3 "bubble" locations, no fans. Then they eventually went back to their regular stadiums, then added a few fans, etc. It seems to have been successful.

To me, as much as I love watching sports, the notion of having a season when we are nowhere near having the virus under control is a really, really bad idea. I guess the NBA is doing the "best" job, but all it takes is 1-2 positive cases and they're shut down as well.
 
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Also really curious if the positive cases are very ill, mildly ill, asymptomatic?


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