Scott Boras Thinks He Knows How the MLB Can Resume Operations and We're Really Skeptical

With government officials and medical professionals scrambling to find effective solutions for turning the tide against the coronavirus pandemic, super-agent Scott Boras has been hard at work concocting his own plans to end the suspension of Major League Baseball. He's now proposing what he calls "functional isolation," a method of quarantining teams in ways that still alllow them to play games.

If his plan were to be implemented -- it's incredibly unlikely it ever sees the light of day -- players would be restricted to only having contact with their teammates and staff that are absolutely necessary to conduct games. Travel would be limited to going between teams' training camps and hotels.

Hmmm. Color us skeptical.

Boras's blueprint would require players and staff to be tested for coronavirus daily, which would require thousands of tests per week at a time in which testing access for the general public is severely limited. It is also worth noting that if one of these tests came back positive, it would mean that countless players would have already been exposed and would need to be isolated for multiple weeks.

It seems Boras is determined to do anything to get things to return to some form of normal. Just ast week, in fact, he expressed concerns over the possibility of MLB changing the rules of the draft in order to accommodate the current challenges.

Boras said he wanted to implement a system to bring baseball back "in a responsible way that aligns with the standards of isolation." Unfortunately, that's just wishful thinking. It just isn't plausible at this time as a workable solution.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently recommend remaining at least six feet from other people and avoiding any public gatherings of any kind. As long as that remains the case, Boras' big ideas are simply non-starters.