" Are Today's Major League Baseball Players TOO Cautious?"

For my New York Yankees, the first month of this ALREADY shortened baseball season is ending on a sour note.  Due to a few cases of the Coronavirus affecting two of the METS' staff, the entire weekend series between the Yankees-Mets has been postponed "due to an abundance of caution."

The Yanks enter today in a virtual tie for first place in the American League East, percentage points ahead of the Tampa Bay Rays who just SWEPT them in a three game series.

MONDAY is a scheduled off day for the Yanks so their next scheduled game, at this point, is in Atlanta on TUESDAY.

This layoff might do them GOOD.  They currently have SIX players on the 10 day "Injured List," FIVE of whom are STARS (LeMahieu, Judge, Stanton, Britton and Torres). These off days due to Coronavirus concerns give THOSE guys a chance to heal before play resumes, and that's a "silver lining in the cloud." Frankly, the Yanks are NOT the same without them.

But between cancellations for Coronavirus concerns and ALL of these guys on the "I.L.," I must ask the question....are today's baseball players TOO cautious?? How is it that six guys are now "injured" when Gehrig and Ripken played ALL of those consecutive games without missing one?? (And this rash of injuries happened LAST year, BEFORE the Virus hit us....the Yanks set a record for guys on the I..L. during the course of a full season.  The Virus CANNOT be blamed for all of our "injuries" this year...and it's NOT just the Yankees who have this problem)!!

I believe that the Coronavirus is real and we SHOULD use SOME caution, but again, I ask, are today's MLB players too soft, TOO cautious??