Mike Trout Says MLB Plan to Play in Arizona Amid Coronavirus Is 'Pretty Crazy'

Mike Trout wants to get back to playing baseball as soon as possible. He's just not sure how feasible MLB's reported plan to hold the entire season in Arizona is.

From a baseball perspective, keeping everyone in one area seems like a path to starting the season. Yet Trout has questions about the details of that plan that will lead to some tough discussions:

"What are you gonna do with family members? My wife is pregnant. What am I gonna do when she goes into labor?" Trout said while speaking to NBC Sports on Wednesday. "Am I gonna have to quarantine for two weeks after I come back? Because obviously I can't miss that birth of our first child. There's a lot of red flags, there's a lot of questions. Obviously, we would have to agree on it as players. But I think the mentality is we want to get back as soon as we can, but obviously it's gotta be realistic. We can't be sitting in a hotel room, just going from the field to the hotel room and not being able to do anything. I think that's pretty crazy."

On Wednesday, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said playing without fans is the way to restart sports.

"Nobody comes to the stadium. Put [the players] in big hotels, wherever you want to play, keep them very well surveilled," Fauci told Snapchat's Peter Hamby. "Have them tested every week, and make sure they don't wind up infecting each other or their family, and just let them play the season out."

Under the outlined plan, MLB would indeed play without fans. Instead of using dugouts, players would sit in the stands to stay six feet apart, and robot umpires could be used to call balls and strikes.

Trout's concerns are valid, and the league and the Major League Baseball Players Association would need to work out an agreement before any such plan is enacted. On Tuesday, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced he was in favor of the state hosting all 30 MLB teams and that he has been in contact with Commissioner Rob Manfred.

As Manfred, MLB owners and the MLBPA continue working through contingency plans, it's obvious there are still a number of critical holdups that need to be addressed before baseball can resume.