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Mark Shapiro provided an update on how the Blue Jays are handling the coronavirus outbreak and the changes to the baseball schedule. bnicholsonsmith has the details ⤵️

DUNEDIN, Fla. – Aside from a few lingering stadium workers, TD Ballpark was eerily quiet by Friday afternoon. Save for the occasional customer wandering up to the box office in search of a ticket refund, there were no fans. The loudspeakers that typically blare music onto the field had fallen quiet and the players who would normally be gearing up for opening day were nowhere to be seen.

“The concerns that we have are far greater than the Blue Jays,” team president Mark Shapiro said from outside the club’s spring facility. “They’re more focused on our community and broader mankind as we’re all dealing with the uncertainty that lies ahead and doing the best we can to navigate through this challenge.”

Following their team meeting Friday, Blue Jays players have a day off Saturday and an optional workout Sunday. Another meeting Monday should offer clarity on key questions, including whether players get paid during the stoppage. “The only way to really make it less abstract and more real is to think of their mothers, think about their fathers, think about their grandparents, think about kids that have compromised immune systems,” Shapiro said. “And there’s an obligation that when they feel symptoms, regardless of a dry cough or a sore throat that they communicate immediately.”

 

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