Cactus League, city leaders ask MLB to delay 2021 spring training, affecting Milwaukee Brewers camp

Due to the current conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic, leaders of all eight cities and a tribal community sent a letter to Major League Baseball asking for Cactus League spring training to be delayed this year. The letter, which was dated Jan. 22, said that projections from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimated that Covid-19 infections in Arizona will decline sharply from mid-February to mid-March. “In view of the current state of the pandemic…