“Expanding this exemption, which only applies to a small number of people, is crucial,” he said. “We are simply making sure the rules apply equally to everyone who is a performer, regardless of where they perform their craft.”
At the news conference, Levine referenced baseball’s having “a lot of experience” with the coronavirus. He said that was why they had been patient waiting to see how Adams would proceed. “We got through it. We get it,” he said. “And that’s why we wanted to give the mayor the time to get to where he got today.”
Alderson and Levine declined to say how many players on their teams were unvaccinated, with Levine citing the collective bargaining agreement as preventing him from discussing it.
While the mandates changes are effective immediately in New York City, the Yankees will still have to deal with a strict vaccine mandate for the nine games they have scheduled in Toronto. Canada has barred unvaccinated foreign players from entering the country for games against the Blue Jays, and in an agreement between Major League Baseball and the players’ union, unvaccinated players can be placed on the restricted list for their teams’ games in Canada. The players would not be paid for the days they are on the restricted list.
As a result of that agreement, some Yankees players may have their vaccination status revealed when the team visits Toronto from May 2 to 4. As of two weeks ago, Manager Aaron Boone had said that the Yankees still had a “few guys, at least, who are not vaccinated.”
The Mets, on the other hand, were one of six M.L.B. teams that did not reach the 85 percent vaccinated threshold last season, a mark that eased some pandemic-related restrictions. It is not yet known if that changed in the off-season.
Many of the questions from reporters at Thursday’s news conference centered on the fairness to people who had lost their jobs to the mandate and on the change in the mayor’s stance after he had said recently that the way to get Irving back on the court would be for him to be vaccinated. Despite the shift in public policy, Adams said he had not wavered from that belief.
“Kyrie, you should get vaccinated,” Adams said. “Nothing has changed. Get vaccinated.”
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