Menu
Franchises

Cardinals Resume Season Tomorrow After Halting Coronavirus Outbreak

The MLB Cardinals have had "four consecutive days of testing without a new, unexpected positive, and that earned them clearance to resume their season Saturday against the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field," according to Derrick Goold of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. The team "rented 41 cars so that 41 members of their traveling party can drive themselves to Chicago Friday," the purpose of the convoy being to "add one more day of isolation from each other before they'll regroup for the first time in nine days on Saturday morning -- a few hours before playing a doubleheader." The Cardinals will play a doubleheader Saturday and "will have 44 days to try and play 55 games for a complete 60-game season." The club has had ten players test positive for COVID-19 and an 11th player "will be added to the COVID-19 injury list because he was considered a risk by the team due to contact tracing." Cardinals President of Baseball Operations John Mozeliak said that the 10 players who have the virus "will not join the team in Chicago." The Cardinals have "set up workouts like a car wash the past couple of days at Busch Stadium." Players had the field or mound "to themselves for 20 minutes." Workouts were "staggered" and there was "never more than one pitcher or one hitter on the field with one coach and one trainer" (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 8/14).

FIGHT TO THE FINISH: The WALL STREET JOURNAL's Diamond & Radnofsky write as the Cardinals' coronavirus-induced hiatus passes the two-week mark, MLB "must now wrestle with an unsettling question: What exactly constitutes a credible season in 2020?" The outbreak has "all but ensured that the Cardinals won't complete their 60-game schedule." MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has said that the league is "comfortable with the reality that not all teams will wind up playing the same number of games this year." Diamond & Radnofsky: "Traditional notions of 'fairness' and 'competitive integrity' are taking a back seat to the awareness that MLB is lucky to be able to schedule something resembling a representative baseball season at all." But what MLB "hasn't determined is how many games a team can miss before its season no longer qualifies as legitimate" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 8/14). 

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 18, 2024

Sports Business Awards nominees unveiled; NWSL's historic opening weekend and takeaways from CFP deal

ESPN’s Jay Bilas, BTN’s Meghan McKeown, and a deep dive into AppleTV+’s The Dynasty

On this week’s Sports Media Podcast from the New York Post and Sports Business Journal, ESPN’s Jay Bilas talks all things NCAA. Big Ten Network’s Meghan McKeown shares her insight into the Caitlin Clark craze. The Boston Globe’s Chad Finn chats all things Bean Town. And SBJ’s Xavier Hunter drops in to share his findings on how the NWSL is making a social media push.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2020/08/14/Franchises/Cardinals.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2020/08/14/Franchises/Cardinals.aspx

CLOSE