Pandemic safety measures aside, the second day of Blue Jays workouts at Rogers Centre Tuesday looked a lot like any other typical day at the ballpark. (ShiDavidi)
Hitting coach Guillermo Martinez, as he stood behind the batting cage, and third-base coach Luis Rivera, as he hit some grounders, also sported masks.
The Blue Jays arrived in Toronto on Sunday night after completing their intake process in Dunedin, Fla., shifting their training camp north after obtaining a special exemption from the federal government late last week. To satisfy quarantine restrictions, the club is holing up at the dome and attached hotel as part of a modified quarantine plan. The Blue Jays hope that plan will form the framework of a protocol that will allow them to stage their 30 regular-season games in Toronto, although the frequent back-and-forth to the United States, where COVID-19 cases continue to rise at alarming rates, may present an insurmountable hurdle.
Blue Jays president and CEO Mark Shapiro said last week that if Rogers Centre isn’t an option for the regular season, “the most likely scenario is that we’d be at TD Ballpark , it’s what we’ve been planning all along.” He added that the Blue Jays intended to examine other options this week, but that he didn’t “want to overstate the looking at all the other alternatives. I’m just being open and transparent that we will do that before we just make the decision to take it back to TD Ballpark.”Ben Nicholson-Smith is Sportsnet’s baseball editor. Arden Zwelling is a senior writer.
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