As states begin to loosen the reins on stay-at-home orders, optimism has risen on if and when sports can po sibly resume.A few contingency plans on how Major League Baseball could po sibly kickstart the regular season have been made public. the recently-dubbed Glen Perkins Jersey "Arizona plan," which includes playing in empty stadiums at the several spring training ballparks exclusively in Arizona. another empty-stadium plan, but where MLB would also radically realign the leagues and divisions to the structure of the Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues in Spring Training to minimize travel and spread players out over two states.The most recently reported idea is a that includes utilizing empty major and minor league ballparks in Arizona, Florida, and Texas. There are five major league ballparks in those three states, all of which have retractable or permanent roofs, giving MLB all kinds of flexibility for hosting multiple games per day and having no more than a four-hour drive between ballparks where certain teams are a signed."It's been one of the ideas that's been put out there," Jorge Polanco Jersey Texas Rangers General Manager Jon Daniels said via conference call on Monday. "Depending on the variety of the other factors, it makes a lot of sense given the nature of the market, the proximity to a lot of the facilities, the quality of those facilities, not just baseball, but also hotels and other things you'd need."With the $1.2 billion construction of Globe Life Field, the brand new home of the Texas Rangers, MLB has another a set at their disposal when conjuring up any po sible solutions for finally getting the regular season underway. While there are many advantages to the three-state plan, including the use of more major league ballparks and keeping a le ser amount of teams in one location, it is still just another idea in a myriad of many others."We've had some involvement just from a due diligence standpoint, helping the league gather information," Daniels said. "I just want to stre s that's really what it is at this point, it's one of several ideas the league is flushing Paul Molitor Jersey out...There's a host of things that they are looking at."Scroll to ContinueTexas governor Greg Abbott that he is allowing his stay-at-home orders to expire on Thursday as the state begins an effort to reopen its economy. Texas is to begin implementing policies and procedures to open things back up. Several other states are in various stages of reopening busine ses as well. Still as recently as Monday, the Rangers have not been given any direction from MLB that they should begin to prepare for anything different."We've gotten no direction that would indicate we should change what we're thinking," Daniels said. "We're continuing to do what we can from a distance, to keep our players in some state of readine s, but we have not began planning for any sort of restart."The Jason Castro Jersey original Opening Day was scheduled for March 26, now over a month ago. On March 15, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) that all events of 50 or more people be postponed or canceled, thus shutting down the sports world in one fell swoop. In the meantime, pitchers like Corey Kluber are contriving ways to work out at home and stay as ready as po sible for when team activities can resume."We'll be ready. It won't take us long to get ramped up," Daniels said. "I think we've done a pretty good job of staying in touch and thinking through po sibilities."The CDC' Logan Morrison Jersey s current recommendation expires on May 10, which is also Mother's Day. It's unclear of when the next set of guidelines or recommendations will come from public health officials. In the meantime, MLB can keep mulling over new ideas to help expedite the start of the regular season.
