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MLB Has Plan to Play in May & Lessons from Korean Baseball

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Sources tell ESPN Senior MLB Insider Jeff Passan that Major League Baseball has a plan to resume in May, gathering all teams and isolating them in Arizona to minimize coronavirus risk. Hear the story of how that might work, and who's on board. Then, a firsthand look at how baseball has returned to South Korea. Scrimmages there are leading up to preseason games slated for later this month. Jeff Passan talks to pitcher Dan Straily, formerly of MLB, now of the Korean Baseball Organization's Lotte Giants, to detail the precautions his team is taking to keep their season on track amidst the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Over the last few weeks, every sports fan in America has been waiting to see when or if the major leagues will resume play.

0:08.3

For the most part, everything's been indefinite, vague, and it's been an open question as to whether some seasons will even begin at all.

0:16.6

But Jeff, you are now hearing that baseball has a plan.

0:20.1

Baseball hopes to have a plan.

0:22.5

And the issue with this plan, Mina, is that there are so many different ways that it can go sideways.

0:29.6

There are so many places where it can fall apart.

0:33.4

But what everyone has come to realize is that this is the best option.

0:38.6

And if the best option is potentially sequestering yourself inside of a hotel and baseball stadiums for potentially up to four and a half months in Phoenix, Arizona during the summer when it's about 110, 120 or so degrees.

0:55.7

And doing this, while the rest of the nation happens to be tuning in because there are no other

1:03.1

sports, that is a plan that you try to make happen.

1:06.4

And it's a plan you try to make happen, especially if you have the backing of federal health officials, which really is what has been pushing this thing forward from the start.

1:18.0

Ever since baseball's opening day came and went, it's been an open question when the sport might return.

1:24.7

Now, the league thinks it might have an answer.

1:30.6

Senior MLB insider Jeff Passen joins today's show to discuss baseball's plan to bring the sport back in May. Then he interviews Dan

1:36.4

Strayley, a pitcher with the latte giants in South Korea, about the rigorous steps they've taken

1:41.9

there to resume play. How do they do it?

1:45.7

And could it happen here too?

1:47.7

I'm Munich Times.

1:49.0

It's Tuesday, April 7th.

1:51.0

This is ESPN Daily.

1:57.5

And then we come back together.

1:59.9

Beautiful.

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