MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred is hopeful that there will be a season starting in the summer. Speaking to CNN, Manfred said he has great confidence that the league will reach an agreement with the players association to start a shorten season in early July. The players have voiced concerns over safety issues involving a return to clubhouses and playing fields. Manfred said the players would be tested multiple times a week for the coronavirus, along with daily temperature checks and symptoms analysis.
Baseball legend Bob Watson is dead at the age of 74. His son says that he died from kidney disease in Houston yesterday. Watson was a two-time All-Star for Hosuton during his 19-year career in the big leagues. Watson later became the first African-American general manager to win a World Series when he guided the New York Yankees to a title in 1996.
Former major league manager and infielder Art Howe is in intensive care in a Houston hospital with the coronavirus. The 73-year-old Howe, best known as the manager of the
”Moneyball” Oakland Athletics playoff teams in the late 1990s and early 2000s, confirmed to Houston TV station KPRC Thursday night he has been dealing with the illness since first feeling symptoms on May 3.