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Stay or play?

As MLB teams across the country begin to report for spring training 2.0 next week, that will be the question on the minds of players who contemplate the risks involved with putting on a season amid the coronavirus pandemic.

On Friday, Nationals reliever Daniel Hudson told Sirius XM’s MLB Network Radio that while he plans to participate in this season, he won’t be bringing his family with him to D.C.

“My family is probably gonna stay in Arizona just to make it easier on them,” Hudson said. “They [would] just be stuck in D.C. without anything to do because my wife previously worked in health care, she was a nurse, so knows how serious this thing can be. She would want to be with her family at home and rather than take the potential risk of going out in D.C. and potentially giving it to me and me giving it to someone else, they’re gonna be at home.”

RELATED: EIREANN DOLAN WANTS PEOPLE HELD ACCOUNTABLE IF MLB SEASON FURTHERS SPREAD OF CORONAVIRUS

Hudson is a father of three daughters all under the age of seven. His youngest, Millie, was born last October while the Nationals were playing the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Championship Series. The reliever missed Game 1 to be with his wide Sara for Millie’s birth.

Of course, Hudson isn’t the only Nationals player faced with this decision. First baseman Ryan Zimmerman told the Associated Press on Friday that he still isn’t sure if he wants to play, citing his wife Heather giving birth to their third child a few weeks ago and his mother’s ongoing battle with multiple sclerosis.

 

“If you’re going to participate, there are rules you have to follow,” Zimmerman wrote in the latest installment of his AP diary series. “The ‘bubble’ is only as good as the people inside of the ‘bubble.’ It’s not like there’s going to be COVID police on our hotel floors. So it will come down to the players and everyone involved and what they do with each and every second of their day. When you start thinking about it like that, it starts becoming a little more complicated.”

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As for Hudson, he’s already started telling his friends in the DMV that he won’t be able to see them while in town.

“I’m originally from Virginia as well so I have tons of family and friends in the area and I basically told them, ‘Hey, I’m going to be in a bubble, guys. I can’t leave the hotel, I can’t leave my apartment. I’m not going to be able to do anything this year.’”

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