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10:51 AM PT — Turns out … MLB might not even need the Nats-Marlins series to complete its season — according to New York Post baseball insider Joel Sherman.
League officials, per Sherman, are kicking around the idea of having total winning percentage determine playoff seeding … which would allow some teams to play a full 60-game slate, while others could play just 50.
MLB has previously used the winning percentage model back in 1981 … when a strike-shortened season forced teams to play a different number of games.
The Washington Nationals players have VOTED against traveling to Miami to play a 3-game series with the Marlins in the wake of a COVID outbreak … and ya gotta wonder, is this a wrap for MLB?!
The Nats were scheduled to play a 3-game series with the Marlins beginning Friday and ending on Sunday.
But, after 15 Miami Marlins players and 2 coaches tested positive for coronavirus, the Washington players decided it was just too damn risky.
The players took a vote — and the majority of the team felt strongly AGAINST playing.
The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal says the MLB now has to figure out what to do … but if the players don’t feel safe, how can you force them to play?
As for the Marlins, they are still in Philadelphia — where they wrapped up a series against the Phillies.
They will be cleared to return to Florida following a series of negative tests — but who knows how long that could take?!
The 2020 MLB season seems to be in danger — though Commissioner Rob Manfred said Monday night he thinks the league will be okay … and insists they have protocols in place for a reason.
Stay tuned …
