Major League Baseball owners will have a call Thursday about how to respond to the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan.
Passan notes that there’s pressure to follow suit as other leagues cancel events and suspend their seasons, and a decision from MLB regarding spring training was expected “soon.”
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Thursday afternoon, spring training games in Florida started as scheduled.
But now word has come through the plan is to suspend all operations.
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