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The weekend news recap at The Cardinal Nation includes a summary of this evening's remarks by #stlcards PBO John Mozeliak. (free) https://t.co/ZSGrMrBjKa pic.twitter.com/lx6owCIrtr
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) August 10, 2020
Included are at-bat shots of 1940 #stlcards all-stars Johnny Mize and Terry Moore. https://t.co/LCZniYWi6A
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) August 10, 2020
Pitching to Tommy Pham, no less…
Carson Kelly takes the mound for the first time in the big leagues! pic.twitter.com/fcuw6uv4Vg
— FOX Sports Arizona (@FOXSPORTSAZ) August 9, 2020
Can’t argue with this, and we haven’t yet heard from Mo…
what a day
— Jack Flaherty (@Jack9Flaherty) August 9, 2020
Indians pitcher Zach Plesac sent home to Cleveland after going out with friends in Chicago on Saturday night in violation of team rules and league’s health and safety protocols. With @ZackMeisel: https://t.co/46ov4QqfaV
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) August 9, 2020
Hear at least one more positive test is expected for cardinals in latest round
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) August 9, 2020
The upcoming Pirates-Cardinals series has been canceled.
— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) August 9, 2020
gscottar, agreed the flights are quicker in division, but my experience is that is less important. More time can burned in checking out of the hotel, traveling to the airport and getting onto the plane (and the same routine reversed at the other end) than on the actual flights themselves. With StL centrally located, they are relatively close to most MLB cities. But having to go to any three or more cities in any given week (if it gets to that) could be a killer.
The virus is an unknown. An outbreak at any time could cause a guy who had no plans to opt out to change his mind. I’d be worried about that possibility if I acquired a guy I did not know.
I did understand your post was on a different subject and time frame. I am not looking that far ahead, but others certainly may want to engage.
To your points, 1964…
A. Based on the schedule currently, here are the number of games per week already committed for the Cards:
Week starting Monday, 8/10: 7 games
8/17: 7 games
8/24: 6 games
8/31: 6 games
9/7: 8 games
9/14: 9 games
9/21: 8 gamesThree more games (Cubs series this weekend) must be added, as well as any Pirates games ahead to be lost (Monday + ??).
So, what is the right maximum of games per week? Has to be at least nine? Ten?
Expanding rosters further would mean more expense for all owners. May not be an easy sell.
B. Personally, I have no issue with percentage being used no matter how many or few games are played. It is not like anyone is not already doing the best they can to be fair and play as many games as possible, given reality.
What wouldn’t be fair is if we accuse them of screwing this up if we don’t come up with the best approach first! 😉
858, I don’t know if you give blood regularly, but if you do, the Red Cross now tests donations for presence of the COVID antibodies. And they tell the donor afterward the result. In my case, it was negative. A positive would have suggested I might have had the virus previously. Nothing is certain, though.
858 said:
It might not be 60 but the league could very well schedule DH on days off and basically tell the team “too bad”.
With the first seven games missed already rescheduled, the Cardinals have only three more off days the entire season. And one of those off-days is this Thursday, just four days from now.
When you consider playing on off days, you have to consider travel for both teams. Unless the two teams were already supposed to meet the day before or the day immediately after the open day, it could mean travel for a “two-game series in one day” – with immediate travel both the night before and the night of the two new games, with other games already scheduled on the days before and after. That would be a real logistical problem – to play what could be four games in three days in three different cities.
My bigger point is that it is going to be much more complicated than just filling the open days with makeup games.
Hear latest testing of #STLCards is producing better results, which is to stay they’ve all been clean. No word on games Tuesday and Wednesday yet. But things are looking better at the moment.
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) August 9, 2020
So Molina did show symptoms, but is apparently not among those hardest hit.
Angels’ coach José Molina told me his brother, Yadier Molina, who tested positive for COVID-19, had mild symptoms and has been feeling much better. Molina said Yadi was supposed to get another COVID-19 test today. https://t.co/ZDWOD1SHQF
— Marly Rivera (@MarlyRiveraESPN) August 9, 2020
1964, your examples do a good job of illustrating the scheduling problem and how it would seem unfair to require the Cardinals to play so many doubleheaders. However, other posters have suggested that it would not be fair to other teams if the Cardinals are allowed to play fewer games if their winning percentage puts them into the playoffs ahead of other teams that play all 60. Is there some middle ground or will this become a major point of controversy in 2020?
More Monday news. Note that the Pirates could conceivably still fly in Monday morning and play that night. While perhaps very low odds, it hasn’t yet been officially ruled out.
GM Ben Cherington confirmed on his radio show the Pirates won't fly to STL tonight.
Derek Shelton said the team expects to get an update from MLB tonight about their scheduled series in St. Louis.
Background on the Cardinals' situation via @anne__rogers: https://t.co/bwiyVZPuAR https://t.co/q3iPwrSSbH
— Adam Berry (@adamdberry) August 9, 2020
The implication in the following tweet is really a bad take, IMO.
The Cardinals are in quarantine. Many players are sick. So the solution is to bring a replacement team of minor leaguers, most of whom are not even on the roster, and start playing? They would have to use minor league coaches, too, since the entire St. Louis staff is in quarantine, as well. This makes absolutely no practical sense.
When the Cardinals are allowed to reform again, they will add players from Springfield as needed to backfill new IL moves. In the meantime, then yes, the best thing these players can do is to stay away from Busch Stadium and keep practicing in Springfield.
Meanwhile, 20+ players in the #STLCards organization are just hanging out in Springfield, MO doing soft toss drills. https://t.co/ejj2UIIWCA
— Joe Roderick (@JoeRoderick) August 9, 2020
The post you put on another thread about more players potentially opting out later this season got me thinking how it could freeze the trade market during the remainder of this season. If I am a team looking to acquire an important player for the final push, I am going to want to know the player will remain and not opt out the day after I acquire him.
Would any player provide that kind of assurance that he would stay through October given all of the uncertainties with the virus? Would any team risk acquiring a player without such an assurance?
My point made by an epidemiologist… The key points for me are “variable incubation periods” and “no way around waiting it out.”
2. MLB is still pushing a return protocol based on consecutive days of negative tests. This is bad.
Should be based on days since quarantine began/transmission stopped. Variable incubation period means cases could easily show up on days 1, 2, 5, 6. No way around waiting it out.
— Zachary Binney (@zbinney_NFLinj) August 9, 2020
MM3, I am confused by your last post.
In order for a team to be quarantined, there has to be a for-sure positively sick player or staff member, likely multiples. Those sick persons came into contact with the entire team. No matter how often the other team members are tested in the next 14 days, they may have been infected, but their incubation period may still conclude in the future. In other words, they may come down with the virus even though they tested negative for two days or more – maybe as many as 13 days.
However, if they return to work inside of 14 days, how do we know there will not be another outbreak from the originally exposed group? Isn’t that what just happened in Milwaukee? They had two straight days of all negatives, then the you-know-what hit the fan.
P.S. This stringent of an approach is NOT what the MLB Ops Manual calls for.
PBO John Mozeliak of the #stlcards told @Ackerman1120 on @KMOXSports that there is "a lot of anxiety" among players on what is next, but he hasn't shared more with them that he shared on the radio today. A meeting later today after latest test results will decide the path ahead.
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) August 9, 2020
Former Cardinal Sean Gilmartin pitched in one game for the Rays and was then DFAed…
So to recap, #Rays:
Activate OF Manuel Margot
Call up RH Ryan Thompson and RH John Curtiss
Place RH Oliver Drake (biceps tendinitis) on IL
DFA LH Sean Gilmartin and C Kevan Smith— Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) August 9, 2020
Wacha to Mets IL.
