SB Nation Reacts: Would you take the field?

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across MLB. Each week, we send out questions to the most plugged in Rays fans, and fans across the country. Sign up here to join Reacts.

Fans may be ready for baseball to return, but they aren’t exactly ready to return to baseball.

In the most recent SB Nation Reacts survey, fans were asked if they were MLB players, would they feel comfortable playing the 2020 season. Roughly two-thirds of responses said yes, they would play.

However, when asked if they were ready to return to the game themselves and watch a game in person, things changed dramatically.

Despite being ready for games to start, only 42% of fans said they would attend a game live this year.

For now, it seems like a longshot that fans would even be allowed to attend this season. At best, plans have been discussed that would only allow severely limited amounts of fans, all spaced throughout the stadium.

While fans are overwhelmingly ready for the game to return, they don’t necessarily trust the man in charge. Less than 40% of voters have faith in MLB commissioner Rob Manfred going forward.

Manfred’s popularity was in trouble before the pandemic hit, receiving heavy criticism for his handling of both the Houston Astros scandal and various comments made during the offseason.

Now we can see Manfred’s popularity has taken such a hit that he’s now seen as a worse commissioner than his predecessor, Bud Selig.

Y’all, baseball is coming back, right?

RIGHT???

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