LAKELAND, Fla. — Most of his lieutenants have already bugged out. The scouts are home. The analytics staff is home. The media relations people are checking out soon. The minor league side is mostly vacated. Manager Ron Gardenhire is back with his wife and grandkids in Fort Myers.

And yet, like all good leaders, Al Avila will be the last man standing.

“It has been kind of weird,” said Avila, the Tigers general manager. “Nobody has ever gone through anything like this.”

The COVID-19 pandemic has shut down baseball. Spring training is over. The Tigers players voted on Friday to remain in Lakeland and continue training on their own at TigerTown. But nobody knows, nobody can know, when things will get back to normal.

“The closest thing to this I can remember was being with the Miami Marlins, I was assistant general manager, when 9-11 hit and baseball stopped,” Avila said. “That changed everybody’s lives. This is the coronavirus and not an attack on us, but I remember sitting around waiting for instructions from Major League Baseball.”

Just as he is doing now.

“The two situations are different, for sure, but there’s things that happen that are unprecedented and you don’t know how to deal with,” he said. “You just make decisions based on the information you are given.”

The TigerTown facility was closed Saturday and Sunday for what Avila called a deep cleaning. No Tigers’ player or staff member has been tested for the virus.

“The players had the option to go home, or back to Detroit or stay here in the Lakeland area,” Avila said. “They will have use of the facility here. After my meeting (Friday), they had a team meeting and my understanding is they all voted to stay.

“We will see if they all show up on Monday, but my expectation is that they all will.”

Charitable action: Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer says he is organizing a “sandlot” baseball game.

He also is trying to raise $1 million for Major League Baseball game day staff who could be affected by the league’s decision to delay the regular season at least two weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Bauer tweeted an invitation on Friday to all MLB and minor league players remaining in Arizona to see if anyone wanted to take part in the pickup game. Several players — including Diamondbacks outfielder Josh Rojas and Padres outfielder Tommy Pham — responded that they were interested.

Bauer has not publicly given any information about the time or location of the game. Reds pitcher David Carpenter initially proposed the idea of a game to Bauer, who organized the fundraiser. Bauer says any content or live streams would be shared through his website Momentum.

On Saturday, Bauer tweeted a link to a fundraising account encouraging people to donate toward the $1 million goal. The site raised more than $10,000 less than 30 minutes after he sent out the tweet.