Cobb comfortable playing in 2020 with 'protocols in play'

Alex Cobb is ‘cautiously optimistic' Major League baseball will be played this year... in a safe way.

SUPPOSED TO BE STARTING ASERIES IN TORONTO.

INSTEAD THESEASON IS POSTPONED FOREXACTLY EIGHT WEEKS.

WMA━2NEWS SHAWN STEPNER CAUGHT UPWITH ONE OF THE BIRDSPITCHERS TONIGHT TO GET HISTHOUGHTS ON WHERE THINGSSTAND.Alex Cobb says he iscautiously optimistic MajorLeague baseball will be playedthis year, in a safe way.

AlexCobb, Orioles Pitcher: Theconcern is way more real forcertain people than it is forothers.

I have my 1━mont━olddaughter.

My wife is 36 weekspregnant now.

Weabout it.

Wecomfortable going to play theseason understanding thattheir are going to be a lot ofprotocols in play.

Then I talkto other players and they arein similar situations and theyare not comfortable with it.The 3━yea━old says ownersand players arewant to get something done.Cobb: Seeing how hard MLB isworking, along with theplayers union, to figure outhow to make everybodycomfortable, itencouraging sign to me.

Cobbspeaking to me from his homein Arizona, canback on the mound.

Stepner:How bizarre does it feel to beapproaching Memorial Dayweekend and not be playingbaseball.

Cobb: Yeah.

Just thesmell in the air of concessionfood and beer and the sunshining and baseball beingplayed, itmy mind and itfeeling, not only in thesports world but all over.

Therighty starter says hekeeping his arm ready bytreating this time like hegetting ready for a normalSpring Training.

Cobb: Ibeen throwing bullpens twice aweek.

Playing catch five, sixdays a week.

And when hehoning his craft hemore time with his daughterChloe.

The two were recentlyfeatured on the Oriolessocial media accounts as partof their Nighttime Storiesseries.

Cobb: ItItjust like a beautiful bondingmoment that we get to sharebefore she goes to bed.

Atthis hour, out west, Dad hasChloe fast asleep.

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