Unvaccinated MLB players won't be allowed into Canada to play Blue Jays

Major League Baseball players who are not vaccinated against the coronavirus won't be allowed to travel into Canada to face the Blue Jays and won't be paid for those games.

The provision that they won't be paid is contained in a side letter between MLB and the players' association, and was first reported by Boston television station WCVB.

Toronto opens at home against Texas on April 8.

"It's a concern," union head Tony Clark said Friday. "I think as everyone knows — appreciate and respect the decisions that are made, particularly in regard to player health and community health. But that is an issue, as one in the pandemic itself, that we're navigating domestically, that we're going to have to continue to try to work through here moving forward."

The Toronto Blue Jays are finally back at spring training.

Stars Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette were among the players who reported to Toronto's training camp this morning.

The players got to work at the Blue Jays facility in Dunedin, Fla., a day after Major League Baseball settled its labour strife.

A lockout had threatened to cancel the 2022 season until an agreement was reached between MLB and its players' association late Thursday.

At the end of BP, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. jumped back in for one pitch. <br><br>He hit it over the batter’s eye in centre field. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlueJays?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlueJays</a> <a href="https://t.co/ruTonudzaz">pic.twitter.com/ruTonudzaz</a>

Toronto had its 2020 and 2021 seasons disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Blue Jays only playing half their home games — often with limited capacity — at Rogers Centre.

Capacity limits will be lifted in Ontario by the time Toronto hosts the Texas