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Plus he was on a really cheap deal. He'd be playing 60 games for like $300K and that's if he made the team. For a guy who has made so much money already, I can understand why he'd just punt.

 

Yeah, King Felix is not a surprise. David Price is big. And bigger names, like Trout, could be predictive of a landslide of top players.

 

Molina?

Nationally recognized players with (far) greater reputations than Molina who could shut this thing down include, in addition to those you mentioned, Judge, Betts, Harper, Bregman, Altuve, Arenado, Alonso, Acuna, Verlander, Cole, and Soto.

 

We're going to either end up with no baseball or baseball that is effectively AAA in major league unis.

 

I'm wondering if there are teams that wind up burning a year of service time on guys they originally had no intention of playing.

 

You do realize it is 2020, not 2015, correct?

Seriously, it could get to the point that it makes no sense to play, but what's left of Felix Hernandez sitting out is the last straw for you?

 

Bryant, Baez and Rizzo have a larger reach than two-thirds of those players.

 

OK. Even if true, that doesn't refute my point in any way, shape or form. But they are good additions to the list of players who are well ahead of any Molina in terms of shutting down the sport. I was really trying to figure out how the hell Molina ended up on Swingline's short list of players who could shut down the sport if they got COVID.

 

OOP- A lot of young dudes look up to Felix.

He was one of the many stars MLB utterly failed to promote/market.

 

Your second sentence may be true, but it is utterly irrelevant to the point.

The first point doesn't mean much, either. Hernandez is now a terrible pitcher. He hasn't even been mediocre since 2017. He had to take a minor-league deal with the Braves and he wasn't even assured of making the roster. He was scheduled to make very little money in 2020 and it made very little sense for him to take the risk.

 

This seems suboptimal.

 

Same problem with the various sports leagues as with the entire country: lack of uniform pandemic infrastructure.

Scattered, idiosyncratic testing and tracking; absence of standardized arrival and quarantine protocols; insufficient restrictions on participants; indifferent enforcement.