The award ceremony for the MVP = Most Valuable Player, which Shohei Ohtani of the Major League Baseball Angels was scheduled to attend in New York next month, has been cancelled.
This was announced by the Baseball Writers' Association of America on the 20th.
According to it, the award ceremony to commend the MVP of this season, which was scheduled to be held in New York on the 29th of next month, "has been decided by the board of directors because we are out of control."
The National Baseball Press Association has not disclosed the reason for the cancellation in detail, but the American media is in a "lockout" state where the labor-management negotiations between the Major League Baseball Organization and the players' association broke down on the 1st of this month and all activities are stopped. It is said that the cause is that it is continuing and that the infection of the new coronavirus is spreading again in New York.
The award ceremony was scheduled to be attended by Angels Otani, who won the American League MVP with a full vote this season, and tickets were also sold to the general public.
Otani gave a two-minute speech in English in front of about 800 people at the award ceremony of the American League rookie of the year, and how will he receive the MVP award at the award ceremony next month? Attention was paid to whether he would give a good speech.