There are plans to bring all the teams to Arizona and have they played behind
closed doors as long as necessary. Last Monday the leaders of the Major League Baseball, the North
American baseball championship, met with the players association to evaluate
the proposals that could allow the start of the championship in a national
emergency for the spread of coronavirus in the United States.
According to Associated Press sources, during the meeting one
of the ideas that would have most intrigued the teams involves moving the
entire organization of the championship - therefore match officials, coaches, players and managers - to the
state of Arizona for a while indefinite. The teams would be quarantined in a
limited area that includes the capital Phoenix to start the championship (which
was supposed to start on March 26) and continue playing until the end of the
emergency.
The games would be
played behind closed doors in ten different baseball fields within a radius of about fifty kilometers, from the
main stadium of the Arizona Diamondbacks to those of the Minor League teams,
the semi-professional level of North
American baseball. About fifteen games a day would be played in as many
stadiums, with the Phoenix Chase Field used as the main field thanks to its
less wear synthetic turf.
