At least one Red Sox team meeting this spring training will include COVID vaccine education. stephapstein explains their progress in getting players vaccinated
Plawecki “somehow slithered through” the outbreak last year, he said. “They never got me,” he said. “[Fourteen] guys went down—it’s pretty easy to take down a guy who’s not vaxed. I was shocked I made it.”
Unvaccinated players will have to weigh their reservations against playing time, health—and in some cases, another factor: The new collective-bargaining agreement states that teams do not have to award players pay or service time for games they miss because of vaccination policies. He said he could not disclose anyone else’s vaccination status but was not aware of any unvaccinated players who are within a few days of a year of service time and would stand to have their free agency delayed if they miss games in Toronto. Still, he added, “It’s definitely an issue.”Maybe not as big an issue as the Red Sox feared, though. “We added three now,” said manager Alex Cora. “So it doesn’t look as bad as people were making it seem five days ago.
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