MLB Tightens Restrictions, Adds Compliance Officers

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Major League Baseball is getting serious about its COVID-19 restrictions in an effort to prevent outbreaks like the ones that have caused frequent cancellations and postponements early in the shortened season.

USA TODAY’S Bob Nightengale reported Wednesday that MLB sent all 30 teams a memo detailing severe protocol measures, including hiring compliance officials to monitor teams and “threatening to suspend a player or staff member for the remainder of the season for repeated or flagrant violations.” The heightened measures come two weeks after the start of the 60-game season that is being played with travel to and from MLB stadiums, unlike the bubble concept the NBA, NHL and MLS have been using.

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