One of the top sports agents in the world said baseball could help America get back on its feet after coronavirus. Scott Boras is proposing a return to baseball without fans done as quickly as possible in a safe and responsible manner
One of the most powerful sports agents in the country has a plan to ready America for its return from coronavirus and, unsurprisingly, it involves baseball.
"I think right now there is a dilemma in America and that is compliance with the public health issue and the requirements of isolation and also the demands of people wanting to return to work," Boras told CNBC's Squawk Alley Wednesday in a separate interview. According to that plan, spring training would start immediately in Florida and Arizona. The league would follow a concept called functional isolationism, protecting parts of a system from the contiguous parts. Boras said this concept was successfully used by South Korea and Singapore during their own COVID-19 crisis. On Tuesday,Boras' plan has players and personnel would arriving for spring training in stages: pitchers and catchers first, followed by position players, and then everyone else.
Not everyone would be in favor of a plan like this. Angels star Mike Trout, whose wife is pregnant, recently spoke out about the impact a long-term quarantine would have on his family. When the time is right to start, which Boras said is June at the earliest and the beginning of July at the latest, the games will return without fans in the stands. During games and practice, Boras envisions players in the dugout wearing more than just baseball gloves, but also the rubber gloves that have become ubiquitous during the cornavirus crisis. Players would take precautions such as wearing masks during batting practice.
"As you would expect, we are considering and analyzing a number of possibilities," Manfred wrote. "Only one decision, however, has been made with respect to the 2020 season: Major League Baseball will return to the field only when public health officials agree that it is appropriate to play and when we are convinced that our return to the field is safe for players, employees and fans.
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