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The Dude wrote:So do we just hope no players test positive before July 24th?

The Dude wrote:So do we just hope no players test positive before July 24th?

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BigEd76 wrote:

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So we gave up shares of playoff money, eliminating the qualifying offer for 2021, paycheck advance forgiveness, Covid 19 protections, and protection for non guaranteed arb contracts for next year in order to hold on to our right to file a grievance...

A grievance that, odds are, they won't win.

May be enough to stop the owners from trying anything grievance-worthy in the first place though.

On top of wanting to show the owners they wouldn’t blink like Squire said, I think they also just dont trust the owners to not try some funny business.

^^^This^^^

They have to reserve at least the right to grievance, or the owners can/will #$!&@ them over, big time.

Just like they had to come back at full pro rata. Anything less sets a bad precedent. Any future financial adversity would be cause to further reduce salaries.

mcare89 wrote:

The Dude wrote:So do we just hope no players test positive before July 24th?

No, you're putting frequent testing in place and isolating guys who test positive as quickly as possible to prevent spread. Just like there is in the NBA right now with them beginning to test guys, there's going to be a bunch of MLB positive tests in the next couple weeks because guys have been out and about and there's a pretty decent chance that some of them caught it in everyday life. That isn't going to be the problem. (It's a problem, obviously, but not the one that's going to stop the season in its tracks.) The problem for MLB is when they get into their full protocols and they have an event where a significant portion of a team tests positive at once a few weeks down the line.

The Dude wrote:

mcare89 wrote:

The Dude wrote:So do we just hope no players test positive before July 24th?

No, you're putting frequent testing in place and isolating guys who test positive as quickly as possible to prevent spread. Just like there is in the NBA right now with them beginning to test guys, there's going to be a bunch of MLB positive tests in the next couple weeks because guys have been out and about and there's a pretty decent chance that some of them caught it in everyday life. That isn't going to be the problem. (It's a problem, obviously, but not the one that's going to stop the season in its tracks.) The problem for MLB is when they get into their full protocols and they have an event where a significant portion of a team tests positive at once a few weeks down the line.

I guess this is where I'm eventually getting at. If one guy tests positive July 25th, wouldnt the whole team have to isolate?

mcare89 wrote:

The Dude wrote:

mcare89 wrote:

The Dude wrote:So do we just hope no players test positive before July 24th?

No, you're putting frequent testing in place and isolating guys who test positive as quickly as possible to prevent spread. Just like there is in the NBA right now with them beginning to test guys, there's going to be a bunch of MLB positive tests in the next couple weeks because guys have been out and about and there's a pretty decent chance that some of them caught it in everyday life. That isn't going to be the problem. (It's a problem, obviously, but not the one that's going to stop the season in its tracks.) The problem for MLB is when they get into their full protocols and they have an event where a significant portion of a team tests positive at once a few weeks down the line.

I guess this is where I'm eventually getting at. If one guy tests positive July 25th, wouldnt the whole team have to isolate?

Not if you're testing everyone all the time. I don't want to go too deep into it because I have no idea what their procedures actually are or how effective they'll actually be, so I don't want to defend MLB who could just screw this whole thing up, but the idea is that if you don't have to isolate if you're being tested all the time and keep coming up negative. It's not a situation where you're worried that they're pre-symptomatic, because even if they're not showing symptoms, they should still test positive if they're carrying it.

BigEd76 wrote:So I'm assuming the schedule will be 3H/3A with the other 9 East teams, with the remaining six games split up somehow. Maybe two 4H/3A and two 3H/4A for the divisional games, which leaves two extra games to add somewhere (like 4H/4A with Toronto)

BigEd76 wrote:Not sure if serious, but apparently any player or coach/manager that gets within 6 feet of an umpire while arguing a call is subject to suspension

BigEd76 wrote:Not sure if serious, but apparently any player or coach/manager that gets within 6 feet of an umpire while arguing a call is subject to suspension