The Triple-A season does not get underway for a month, and given the unpredictable needs of the big league team, MLB had to put together a plan for April. Thus the return of the alternate site squads.
At alternate sites, teams can have a Triple-A-ish roster at the ready to call up/send down players as necessary, where they can be a little better safe-guarded against COVID issues. There, the teams will practice, play intrasquad games, and periodically travel locally to play games against other alt site teams. The Cubs will once again be at South Bend.
A question I’ve had is, when the Cubs’ roster was finalized, how far would they stretch on sending “prospects” to the alt site, versus keeping them in Arizona to participate in minor league spring training, which is now underway. From the look of the now-released Cubs alt site roster, it looks like the Cubs really tried to keep things pretty traditional in this non-traditional time. That is to say, the roster is mostly legit
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