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The plan to start the Major League Baseball season after the coronavirus shutdown is lifted seems a little fishy to the sport’s biggest star. Los Angeles Angels outfielder and reigning AL MVP Mike Trout sounds skeptical about the proposal being discussed to play games in Arizona without fans while sequestering players and staff in nearby …
The plan to start the Major League Baseball season after the coronavirus shutdown is lifted seems a little fishy to the sport’s biggest star.
Los Angeles Angels outfielder and reigning AL MVP Mike Trout sounds skeptical about the proposal being discussed to play games in Arizona without fans while sequestering players and staff in nearby hotels and testing them regularly for COVID-19 for several months.
“I obviously want to play as fast as we can. Get to a city, maybe Arizona, they’re throwing out Florida. Being quarantined in a city, if we play a couple of months, it would be difficult for some guys,” Trout said Wednesday in a video interview with NBC Sports. “What are you gonna do with family members? My wife is pregnant. What am I gonna do when she goes into labor? Am I going to have to quarantine for two weeks after I come back?
“Because obviously I can’t miss that birth of our first child. So there’s a lot of red flags, a lot of questions.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said this week that the only feasible way to restart sports is without fans attending and with frequent testing of all involved for the virus.
“Nobody comes to the stadium. Put [the players] in big hotels, wherever you want to play, keep them very well surveilled,” Fauci said. “Have them tested every single week and make sure they don’t wind up infecting each other or their family, and just let them play the season out.”
The reaction to such a possibility has been mixed, with Trout the latest and biggest name in the game to voice his doubts. Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw also said earlier this week “I just don’t see that happening” and “I’m just not going to do it” about the proposed plan.
“Obviously, we would have to agree on it as players,” Trout added. “I think the mentality is we want to get back as soon as we can, but obviously it’s gotta be realistic. We can’t be sitting in a hotel room, just going from the field to the hotel and not being able to do anything. I think that’s pretty crazy.”
