{"id":25355,"date":"2020-07-11T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mlb-2020-coronavirus-effect-no-easy-way-to-talk-about-it\/"},"modified":"2020-07-11T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T06:38:00","slug":"mlb-2020-coronavirus-effect-no-easy-way-to-talk-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mlb-2020-coronavirus-effect-no-easy-way-to-talk-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"#MLB 2020 coronavirus effect: No easy way to talk about it"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#MLB 2020 coronavirus effect: No easy way to talk about it<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Robinson Cano \u201cwas not on site here the last few days,\u201d Brodie Van Wagenen said Friday, at a rainy Citi Field, and no one owes us more information than that. Cano deserves to have his privacy respected.<\/p>\n

Yet in this age of coronavirus, how do we reconcile wishing the best for Cano, no matter what\u2019s going on with him, and analyzing what an extended absence \u2014 or even merely a setback in preparation for the regular season \u2014 means for the Mets\u2019 playoff chances?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a ghoulish situation that Major League Baseball set up for itself \u2014 and that all of the major North American sports intend to follow, to be clear \u2014 that we find ourselves navigating. I mean, really, are Mets fans happ<\/a>y that Braves stud first baseman Freddie Freeman has coronavirus, which in turn spooked his teammate Nick Markakis into opting out? Are you good with the Nats losing face of the franchise Ryan Zimmerman to an opt-out because he has a newborn baby and a mother at high risk?<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re all sympathetic,\u201d Van Wagenen said during a Zoom call with the media<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m sympathetic to anyone who gets sick or who contracts this virus. Personally, I\u2019ve dealt with it in my own family and I\u2019ve dealt with it with friends. And I know this population has dealt with tragedy in one degree of separation.\u201d<\/p>\n

(That\u2019s a shout-out to Post photographer Anthony Causi, who died of COVID-19 in April. Thanks, Brodie. It\u2019s not the same here at the ballpark without you, Anthony.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Van Wagenen continued: \u201cAnd so when we hear other people get the virus, the first instinct is, \u201cI hope they\u2019re OK. I hope their symptoms are minimized, and I hope that it doesn\u2019t progress into something serious and potentially life-threatening. And then, beyond that, obviously as it relates to baseball, for any player, you never hope for illness or injury and you hope they can return quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sure, you never hope for anything, but an oblique strain, for instance, isn\u2019t contagious, and if general<\/a> managers took truth serum, many would admit to not being heartbroken if a rival\u2019s important player went down with a pedestrian ailment that didn\u2019t threaten his career or especially his life. It\u2019s OK, they\u2019re human.<\/p>\n

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Robinson Cano and Brodie Van Wagenen<\/span>Corey Sipkin; Robert Sabo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The cruel truth is that, one week into spring training 2.0, the Mets have made up ground on paper amidst their ultracompetitive division. In addition to Freeman\u2019s illness and Markakis\u2019 opt-out, veteran starting pitcher Felix Hernandez, who had appeared to win a job with Atlanta during spring training 1.0, also opted out. The defending champion Nats saw pitcher Joe Ross join Zimmerman on the opt-out list. Phillies third baseman Scott Kingery is very behind following a rough battle with his disease.<\/p>\n

No Met has opted out, and Van Wagenen said, \u201cWe haven\u2019t had any players express the potential of opting out.\u201d No Mets player has declared himself as testing positive for coronavirus, although Van Wagenen said last week that one player on the club\u2019s 40-man roster had done so; both Cano and reliever Brad Brach haven\u2019t been around, with no explanation provided, and MLB announced Friday that 71 players tested positive to date, an average of 2.4 per team. A total of 28 teams have seen either a player or staff member test positive, MLB said.<\/p>\n

Hence the tempered reaction. Do we contemplate whether Jeff McNeil would slide from third base to second, with J.D. Davis manning the hot corner, if Cano winds up out for a while? Do we address the bullpen\u2019s compromised depth without Brach? We kind of have to if there\u2019s actually going to be a season starting (for the Mets) on July 24, right?<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point, we\u2019re a week in,\u201d Van Wagenen said. \u201cTwo weeks is a long time in this environment to know what your club is going to look like by Opening Day. So we\u2019re really trying to focus here. Not trying to handicap what\u2019s going on with other clubs because I know, like us, things can change pretty quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Less than an hour later, the converted agent Van Wagenen\u2019s former client Buster Posey opted out of 2020. It\u2019s that kind of season. The only path to enjoying it on some level might be to keep talking things through, figuring it all out, together.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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