Sources: MLB finalizing return-to-play proposal (Passan)

Couldn’t have posted this in the thread we already have open about when the season is going to start? You know, the other thread that you also started about this topic!
 
50PoundHead said:
One guy tests positive and the season is over. Only half-kidding.
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I mean, besides the player-compensation issue, that is the other massive hurdle—and one that I think is ultimately more substantial to actual playing the season (as opposed to just setting a date for starting it).

If a player tests positive, there's a non-trivial chance it'll end up being more than one player by the time they've ascertained there's a positive case—so what happens if a sixth of the proposed thirty-man active roster is suddenly medically ineligible? Or if two teams playing a three-game series suddenly each lose half their players to medical ineligibility? And, even if cases are caught at the single-player level, how many individual cases can a roster withstand? What if a player tests negative, but a household member comes up positive? Is that player medically ineligible anyways, as a precaution?

Lots of questions—and of course none of this even mentions how competitively fraught everything could get. For instance, say the Braves were to lose Acuña, Albies, and Swanson for a 14–21-day stretch in precautionary quarantine, and that happens to coincide with a few series against top division rivals. Or say the Twins lose their whole bullpen for 14–21 days right before the postseason?

Going to be strange baseball, if there's a season at all, for a hell of a host of reasons.
 
jpx7 said:
I mean, besides the player-compensation issue, that is the other massive hurdle—and one that I think is ultimately more substantial to actual playing the season (as opposed to just setting a date for starting it).

If a player tests positive, there's a non-trivial chance it'll end up being more than one player by the time they've ascertained there's a positive case—so what happens if a sixth of the proposed thirty-man active roster is suddenly medically ineligible? Or if two teams playing a three-game series suddenly each lose half their players to medical ineligibility? And, even if cases are caught at the single-player level, how many individual cases can a roster withstand? What if a player tests negative, but a household member comes up positive? Is that player medically ineligible anyways, as a precaution?

Lots of questions—and of course none of this even mentions how competitively fraught everything could get. For instance, say the Braves were to lose Acuña, Albies, and Swanson for a 14–21-day stretch in precautionary quarantine, and that happens to coincide with a few series against top division rivals. Or say the Twins lose their whole bullpen for 14–21 days right before the postseason?

Going to be strange baseball, if there's a season at all, for a hell of a host of reasons.
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This is what I brought up in the other restart the season topic (bringing me back to why are there 2 topics for the same issue), but I digress. When a player catches the virus, there will be a large portion of that team and other teams said player has played against that will need to be held out for precaution. How does MLB handle this? How can a team be penalized if their players catch it? And what will it take for the season to be called off again? Will it need to be a Bryce Harper or Mike Trout catching the virus, or if someone like Charlie Culberson or Johan Camargo catch it would it get the same reaction from MLB?
 
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