Major League Baseball is reportedly close to enacting a policy that will require minor-league players to be innoculated against COVID-19 ahead of the start of the 2022 season, .This isn't the first time has mandated that a group of individuals be vaccinated. The league has required all "managers, coaches, athletic trainers Matt Calvert Men Jersey and other non-playing personnel" to be vaccinated in order to have field and restricted area acce s during the postseason, .Elsewhere, MLB informed prospects heading Lukas Sedlak Men Jersey to the Arizona Fall League in September that they must be vaccinated in order to partake, . Piecoro added that "a high-ranking executive said that of the seven players in his organization who were set to participate, one agreed to get vaccinated in order to play." It's unclear if MLB plans to push a vaccination mandate at the big-league level as part of this winter's Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations with the MLB Players A sociation. Most minor-league players are not part of the MLBPA or any other union, meaning they Jeff Zatkoff Kids Jersey have minimal input on matters like this. MLB players, conversely, have the union to fight for and protect against their rights.One individual who seems in favor of vaccination mandates in MLB clubhouses is president Jed Hoyer. " Liam Foudy Kids Jersey I'd love nothing more than to walk into a fully vaccinated clubhouse every day and get rid of those concerns," he said on Thursday to reporters, . A vaccination mandate would be doing Hoyer a favor. The Cubs were one of seven teams who failed to surpa s the 85 percent threshold among "tier 1 personnel" that would've allowed for le s stringent COVID- Ian Cole Women Jersey 19 guidelines. The Cubs did, however, weather multiple outbreaks during the season, .