Blue Jays: Baseball season circling the drain amidst COVID-19 outbreak

The Toronto Blue Jays 2020 season may be in jeopardy following a COVID-19 outbreak in Philadelphia affecting the Miami Marlins.

According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, the Miami Marlins have 11 players and two coaches that have tested positive for COVID-19. The Marlins just wrapped up a series in Philadelphia and were scheduled to play in Baltimore tonight.

MLB has canceled the contest between the Marlins and Orioles as well as the Phillies and Yankees games tonight. The Phillies cancellation is presumably precautionary as all their players will need to undergo tests in light of this latest outbreak.

Hopefully. this is an isolated incident, however, with the pandemic not being contained in the United States, there is a very good chance the pandemic continues to spread across the league.

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The Blue Jays are currently tabbed to begin a series with the Phillies in Philadelphia this coming Friday while the Marlins were to be in Buffalo for a three-game set on August 11th.

The Jays will spend the next four days in Washington, however, the Nationals had a recent case of their own when Juan Soto went down with COVID-19 just before Opening Day. Soto has yet to return to the lineup since his positive test.

The decision by the Federal Government to nix the Jays home games north of the border was the appropriate ruling. There was no way to safely allow border travel into the country from neighboring teams to the south.

This could all become a moot point if the MLB make the unpopular decision to cancel the entire season. Games around the league are continuing tonight but there is no doubt the season is hanging by a thread.

If members of the Phillies organization end up testing positive that could be the final nail in the coffin that cancels the 2020 campaign. Fingers crossed but the season outlook is as gloomy as the Blue Jays bullpen the past two games.