{"id":35793,"date":"2020-07-31T20:35:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T00:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=35793"},"modified":"2020-07-31T20:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T00:49:49","slug":"rob-manfred-warning-to-shut-down-mlb-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2020\/07\/31\/rob-manfred-warning-to-shut-down-mlb-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Manfred Threatening to Shut Down MLB Season If Protocols Aren\u2019t Followed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">According to ESPN insider Jeff Passan, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is threatening to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/29572885\/sources-mlb-commissioner-warns-shutdown-players-do-better-job-managing-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shut down<\/a> the season if COVID-19 infections continue to rise within the sport. On Friday, Manfred told MLB Players Association executive director <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/clarkto02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tony Clark<\/a><\/strong> that the sport needs to do a better job &#8220;of managing the virus.&#8221; This comes after 21 members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/miami-marlins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miami Marlins<\/a> organization tested positive for COVID-19, and six teams have had their originally scheduled games for Friday postponed due to the virus &#8212; 20% of the league. Since Monday, 15 games have been postponed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: MLB commissioner Rob Manfred told MLBPA executive director Tony Clark on Friday that if the sport doesn\u2019t do a better job of managing the coronavirus, it could shut down for the season, sources tell ESPN. However. Then. As a result. Rob Manfred. Rob Manfred. Yes. Passan. Jeff Passan<\/p>\n<p>Story at ESPN: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o0OL7JzowN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/o0OL7JzowN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1289304394312212481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Manfred and the league are concerned with the players&#8217; lack of following the jointly-agreed upon safety protocols. Players have been seen spitting, high-fiving, and not wearing masks or social distancing. However, that&#8217;s not all. According to Passan, one high-ranking official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/29572885\/sources-mlb-commissioner-warns-shutdown-players-do-better-job-managing-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> that &#8220;there are some bad decisions being made&#8221; off the field. As a result, MLB is requiring teams to travel with a compliance officer to ensure that everyone is following the protocols.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 11,895 tests that were conducted over the past week, there were 29 positive tests &#8212; 21 of those from Miami. Although this isn&#8217;t a colossal number, the league is concerned about another outbreak like Miami&#8217;s if rules are not followed.<\/p>\n<h3>Crucial Weekend<\/h3>\n<p>This weekend is considered to be crucial for Major League Baseball. There is concern that the league will be shut down on Monday if there&#8217;s a jump in positive cases or if players don&#8217;t abide by the protocols.<\/p>\n<p>Although high-fiving and spitting are habits of baseball players, it appears that they&#8217;ll need to break these habits if they want the MLB season to continue.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"VoooM9ZyTtNsMOMeOqRPAQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1174359475\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'VoooM9ZyTtNsMOMeOqRPAQ',sig:'nRCJOheF6IF4E8Zv8G_HI2CCiarhsyU0CMcam4X-F1A=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'1174359475',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ESPN insider Jeff Passan, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is threatening to shut down the season if COVID-19 infections continue to rise within the sport. On Friday, Manfred told MLB Players Association executive director Tony Clark that the sport needs to do a better job &#8220;of managing the virus.&#8221; This comes after 21 members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2924,"featured_media":35803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1071,35],"tags":[3492,1008],"class_list":["post-35793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-mlb","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-rob-manfred"],"modified_by":"Aaron Cornett","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}