Baseball is officially in a standstill, more or less, although Trevor Bauer did what he could by staging a sandlot-style wiffle ball game in Arizona.
James Fegan wrote a wrap-up story from White Sox camp, where players and staffers are allowed to stay if they so choose, because none of them have shown any symptoms of the new coronavirus.
As for some of the questions Josh and I discussed on the shutdown show, Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich got to one of them. Regarding service time, Major League Baseball and the union would need to agree on the number of days required for a full year of service time, since there's no way anybody is getting to 172 this season.
Jerry Reinsdorf may have dropped a hint about another question he'll face when the former Opening Day rolls around. The Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks announced Saturday that they will pay the gameday employees at the United Center for the remainder of the originally scheduled season.
Nobody with the White Sox has answered questions about the fates of Guaranteed Rate Field personnel, although given the freshness of the news and the cushion before the original schedule would have started, they deserve a little time to mull it over (look at O'Hare for the value of thinking through a plan). That Reinsdorf's Bulls are taking care of the United Center's crew is an encouraging start to resolving such hardships at 35th and Shields.
At any rate, keep washing your hands, disinfecting your phone, and stay put the best you can. I'd say to stay out of Wrigleyville, but I don't think anybody here needs that advice.
