MLB and MLBPA have a deal

[lexrageorge]

Every team has non-vaxxed players

And they will be forced to sit out while the team finds replacements for the Toronto games. Again, who cares.

 

[YTF]

I fully support players not receiving pay for insubordination. I'm half expecting a controversy where an anti-vaxxer tries to avoid public scrutiny by attempting to get his team to go along with a bereavement story when they head to Toronto… and I can already see the controversy at the end of the year when an unvaccinated MVP candidate(s) loses votes because he chose not to be available in all games for his team.

There's the age old discussion as to what constitutes "valuable". I fault no MVP voter for seeing a loss in "value" for choosing not to be available as your team fights for a playoff spot or divisional title against a divisional rival. As the schedule currently stands, Boston has 10 games in Toronto this season including the final series of the season. It's all hypothetical, but let's say Toronto takes 8-10 of those games, the Sox miss the playoffs by one game and Bogaerts is a legit MVP candidate. If I have a vote he doesn't get it.

 

[AB in DC]

I'm going to guess:

2 two-game "rivalry" interleague series home and home = 4
14 x three-game interleague series otherwise = 42
10 x six games against other divisions = 60
4 x fourteen games against division opponents = 56

I was close -- 4-42-64-52 instead of 4-42-60-56.