(04-03-2020 06:03 PM)Wedge Wrote:  If this is the idea, forget it...

https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox...020-season

Quote:Players would need to be quarantined in league-controlled hotels, tested constantly, and shuttled to and from the park. For such a plan to work, they'd have to sacrifice their most basic freedoms of movement, because a single failed test would grind the season to a halt while at least one team spends two weeks in isolation, potentially triggering a cascade of shutdowns, too (the mere possibility of which prompted the NBA to suspend its season, after all).

Convincing the union to sign off on such draconian restrictions won't be easy, but the alternative may very well be no baseball.

The games would be made-for-TV events without fans. If each ballpark hosted one or two games a day, a regular schedule could be played.

The challenges would be enormous. Do three teams share one clubhouse? Could ballpark and hotel staff be expected to live in isolation as well to avoid infection? How long could players live like prisoners? Will testing capacity ramp up enough to accommodate an entire league? Are the results even reliable? And how would teams keep their facilities germ-free if they're in use all day?

This writer doesn't even mention that playing two games in a day at a spring training park would require playing at least one during the day. The average high temperature in Phoenix on June 1st is 100 degrees, and it goes up by a few more degrees as the month goes on. Doesn't get better in July, either.

There would be no reason to play games during the day at Spring Training facilities.

There are 11 suitable parks (12 if you add GCU) in the Phoenix Metro area. That is 22 or 24.

Chase Field can host double headers, since it is indoors. That gives 4 more teams.

Off days, etc. And if you really wanted 15 fields, Tucson is only 90 minutes away and has two suitable stadiums.

No need to play any day games other than at Chase