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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred delivered the
stern message to MLBPA executive director Tony Clark after
Friday's game between the St. Louis Cardinals and host Milwaukee
Brewers became the latest to be postponed after two visiting
players tested positive for coronavirus.
According to the ESPN report, players who were briefed on the
call fear the season could be shut down as soon as Monday if
there are more positive tests and players continue to flaunt
safety protocols.
The Cardinals and Brewers join a growing list of teams who have
seen their schedules impacted by a run of positive COVID-19
tests.
The Miami Marlins were the first to suffer an outbreak among
their team and MLB has since shut down the club for a week,
meaning they will need to make up seven games during an
already-truncated 60-game season that began just last Thursday.
Unlike the National Basketball Association and Major League
Soccer, which have assembled in a restricted campus at Disney
World in Florida, most MLB teams are playing in their usual
stadiums and following a schedule designed to limit travel.
State and local officials as well as the league have expressed
concerns that players are being lackadaisical about the safety
guidelines in MLB's 113-page operations manual and making bad
choices on and off the field, ESPN reported.
Television broadcasts have shown players not social distancing,
not wearing masks, high-fiving and spitting.
(Reporting by Steve Keating in Toronto. Editing by Toby Davis)
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