The Blue Jays are on a "scramble to find a suitable spot for their part in baseball’s precarious restart," with multiple COVID-19 cases among players and staff at the club’s now shut down facility in Dunedin, Fla., "fuelling the urgency," according to Shi Davidi of SPORTSNET.ca. Now, the team’s Rogers Centre home in Toronto is its "preferred landing spot." But doing so "would require an exemption letter from the federal government similar to the one the NHL received allowing it to set up hub cities in the country, and would set the stage for regular-season games to take place in the city, too." The Blue Jays "could establish a relatively self-contained hub by using the hotel attached to the dome as a base for players, with direct access to the field below." The same process "could be replicated for games during the season, with arriving clubs travelling directly from the airport to the hotel, playing their games, and leaving town right after with a minimal footprint." Prior to this point, the majority of the Blue Jays’ legwork "focused on holding camp in Dunedin," though that has been "in flux since the complex was closed late last week" (SPORTSNET.ca 6/24).
