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Four Members Of Yankees Organization Test Positive For COVID-19

By George Miller | June 20, 2020 at 4:41pm CDT

Four people in the Yankees organization have tested positive for the coronavirus, reports George A. King III of the New York Post. Training in Tampa, the Yankees are the latest team based in Florida to have reported positive tests, along with the Phillies (Clearwater) and the Blue Jays (Dunedin).

After administering tests on Friday, further results are pending and the number of cases in the organization could very well climb in the coming days. Needless to say, Yankees facilities in Tampa have been closed and private workouts held at George M. Steinbrenner Field have been suspended.

According to King III, at least three of the people who have contracted are staff members, two of whom work at Steinbrenner Field while the other two “have ties to the nearby minor league complex.” In March, two players in the Yankees minor league system tested positive for the virus shortly after Spring Training was put on hold.

Earlier today, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that any potential continuation of spring training for the Yankees and Mets will take place in their home ballparks in New York rather than their typical stations in Florida. While New York has seen a lower infection rate than other states, Florida is in the midst of a substantial increase in cases.

It’s worth mentioning that the Mets have had one player test positive for the virus in recent months—as reported by Andy Martino of SNY—though that player was away from the team’s spring training facility in Port St. Lucie, so as of today there is no requirement for further testing of those at the camp. Nonetheless, they will transition their workouts back to their home ballpark, and quite soon: Cuomo stated that the organization will move forward with a “soft training camp reopening” next week.

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  1. BlueSkies_LA

    3 years ago

    Stick a fork in it my friends.

    Reply
    • nreeves1268

      3 years ago

      I suspect there won’t be any NFL or college football, either. And in my state (Georgia), it is sacrilegious to contemplate such things.

      Reply
      • nymetsking

        3 years ago

        100% no college. NFL is very unlikely. It’s possible they could some up with a shorter season bubble thing, but no way do they have a “normal” season (with no fans).

        Reply
      • NYY42

        3 years ago

        Lol

        Reply
    • Ruben_Tomorrow

      3 years ago

      We can’t live our lives this way. There has to come a point where we accept it and treat it as if you have the flu. More people are contracting this virus and not falling seriously ill, than those that are and/or perishing from the virus.

      Reply
      • BlueSkies_LA

        3 years ago

        Bogus.

        Reply
      • ohyeadam

        3 years ago

        Yep. Practice general hygiene, wear a mask in heavy traffic areas, be self aware if youve got a pre existing condition or are elderly. Stay at home if ill, just as you should with flu.

        Reply
        • BlueSkies_LA

          3 years ago

          Bogus.

        • carlos15

          3 years ago

          Idiot

        • wild bill tetley

          3 years ago

          Definite idiot.

      • NYY42

        3 years ago

        idiot

        Reply
      • carlos15

        3 years ago

        Correct

        Reply
    • Afk711

      3 years ago

      You seriously think MLB or sports in general didn’t expect players to test positive?

      Reply
      • BlueSkies_LA

        3 years ago

        They aren’t even in camp yet, and you seriously think they will be able to control infections once they start playing games?

        Reply
        • Afk711

          3 years ago

          If you have every player testing often then yes they can control it.

        • BlueSkies_LA

          3 years ago

          In Korea and Japan they are doing far more than just testing because they know that just testing won’t be enough.

        • puigpower

          3 years ago

          Look at the premier league they are doing it

  2. sufferfortribe

    3 years ago

    “While New York has seen a lower infection rate than other states…..”

    Uh……what?

    Reply
    • dixoncayne

      3 years ago

      Currently…

      Reply
    • WiffleBall

      3 years ago

      At the moment, New York (not just NYC, but all of New York state) is seeing about 500-800 cases daily, well down from a peak of about 8-10,000 a day. Meanwhile, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, California,North Carolina, Louisiana, and South Carolina are all seeing enormous upticks.

      Florida saw 4,000+ cases today, just a couple of weeks after everyone was boasting about how low their infection rate was.

      Reply
      • AlvaroEspinoza

        3 years ago

        NY first hit 4,000 daily confirmed cases about 2 weeks before their peak. It’s past time for the NY teams to head north.

        Reply
        • WiffleBall

          3 years ago

          Yep. That’s what they’re doing. The key is to make sure New York doesn’t suddenly see another peak. Being a local, one thing I’ve seen is that most people are abiding by the mask rule, something they are definitely not doing in Florida, Texas, and Arizona.

        • johnnydubz

          3 years ago

          Not where I saw. Most New Yorkers don’t care which is why so many are protesting without social distancing or not wearing a mask. Some Ahole NYers setting off fireworks. Hopefully they blow their hands off for being cruel to animals and people working.

        • CursedRangers

          3 years ago

          You do know that masks are required, by law, in most major cities in Texas. It’s a $500 fine if you walk into a business in Dallas without a mask on (excluding restaurants).

        • cjb

          3 years ago

          Not true. I walked into 2 stores in Dallas with no mask and I still have the $1000.

        • cjb

          3 years ago

          Its fun watching people lie and calling them out lol

      • Brac2brac

        3 years ago

        Yeah those guys are probably thinking about total deaths and death rate. NYS death rate is about 1550+ per million where Belgium is worst country in the wopplrld at ~825+ per million. NYC has 20,000 of NYS 30,000 deaths so it’s rate is much higher and accounts for ~18% of entire US total deaths. NYS 25% of US total. Add in spread to NJ and CT (2nd and 3rd highest per capita deat rate) from NYC and it was the epicenter for US and worst performance in the world. Not betting that the Mayor or the people have changed in 3 months, so doubt the season is played in full in NYC. Miss baseball…p

        Reply
    • downeysoft42

      3 years ago

      Currently based of trends over the last day 2 weeks it is very clear to the naked eye that Florida is on the upswing and New York has already cleared a peak, thus is currently on a downward treck protests pending of course. Reading your post again you didn’t mean just Florida, but even against other states yes their still lower, the northeast has already saw their peaks, while the south and some of the west is just entering that now. I would say New York City is safer rn than 1/2 the states in us perhaps?

      Reply
  3. rusty2489

    3 years ago

    all sports should be shut down for 2020. all they are gonna do is wind up passing along to everyone else and restart the pandemic.

    Reply
    • sherlock_

      3 years ago

      Most states aren’t even taking the precaution they’re supposed to do at this point why not people are gonna get it anyway

      Reply
  4. HaloHonk4Life

    3 years ago

    What happen did all these teams have a union meeting?

    Reply
    • kwolf68

      3 years ago

      They did and are not responding for a few days while they gather health data information.

      Reply
  5. JayRyder

    3 years ago

    No baseball this year

    Reply
  6. Afk711

    3 years ago

    I have a time share in Arizona to sell anyone who actually thinks after 3 months of nothing, players are all of a sudden testing positive in just the last 24 hours.

    Reply
  7. amcferron85

    3 years ago

    Everytime I see Dunedin, I think of Lord of the Rings. Yes… I am a nerdy baseball fan.

    Reply
    • HaloHonk4Life

      3 years ago

      Baseball might be Dunedin for 2020

      Reply
      • amcferron85

        3 years ago

        Nice profile pic!

        Reply
    • puigpower

      3 years ago

      You’re the man

      Reply
  8. forwhomjoshbelltolls

    3 years ago

    I have to ask again…are people in Tampa just licking each other as they pass on the street?

    Also, didn’t FLA try to ban people from NY at one point? Worm has kinda turned there.

    If it makes sense medically, NY is an ideal hub city, obviously.

    Reply
  9. Goose

    3 years ago

    And yet the death rate is down to the flu levels.

    Reply
    • SalaryCapMyth

      3 years ago

      The flue has a facility rate of .01% while Covid is %1. You may think it’s still not that big but Covid is 10x more fatal and that is only of hospital staffs aren’t overwhelmed.

      You don’t have to take my word for it either. You can Google these fatality percentages. They are readily available.

      Reply
    • BlueSkies_LA

      3 years ago

      Bogus. The mortality rate for coronavirus is around 0.25%, which only sounds good to people who flunked third grade math.

      Reply
      • MWeller77

        3 years ago

        Yeah, I see a bunch of characters (including on this board) citing the “low” mortality rate, as though less than 1% doesn’t still equal massive suffering when we’re talking about a population that could reach the millions. I don’t know if they’re ignorant, heartless, or both

        Reply
        • BlueSkies_LA

          3 years ago

          The other possibility is they are deliberately delivering disinformation in order to promote confusion and create antagonism. Now who would want a thing like that?

          If the mortality rate is as low as 0.25% then we’d need around 600,000 deaths to reach herd immunity without a vaccine, assuming a person who has had it remains immune for long enough. At the present burn rate we’d get there around the end of next year. Maybe.

    • jeffmaz

      3 years ago

      In the last 10 years, between 12k and 61k Americans die of the flu each year. This year in less than 4 months 120k have died. In each state, deaths attributed to pneumonia (because the dead person was never tested) are 1k to 6k over normal yearly averages per state. Most of those deaths will be reclassified as the virus when this is over. So we’re looking at 300k to 400k deaths this year vs 12k to 61k deaths from the regular flu. Those regular flu deaths are still happening by the way. The 300k to 400k Covid deaths are with 2 or 3 months in quarantine and 7 or 8 months with masks, spacing, etc. So tell me again how it’s just the flu?
      I don’t see how there will be baseball this year but I want to see games as bad as you do. I don’t want people to die doing it however.

      Reply
      • BlueSkies_LA

        3 years ago

        A couple of months ago the disinformation story was “it’s just a bad cold.” Then it was “nothing more than the flu.” Now it’s “only a little worse than the flu.” Pretty soon the story will have to change to “not as bad as the Black Plague.”

        Reply
        • Sarasotaosfan

          3 years ago

          Blueskies, you have it backwards. Early estimates pegged the fatality rate more than an order of magnitude higher than it turns out to be.

        • BlueSkies_LA

          3 years ago

          @ Sarasotaosfan. Bogus. You don’t understand this concept at all, do you? We have so many opportunities to educate ourselves on this subject. But why bother, right?

          I know you won’t bother, but you might start with the definition of Case Fatality Rate.

      • forwhomjoshbelltolls

        3 years ago

        “Math is for commies. Car accidents are deadlier!!! Brainwashed sheeple trying to convince me that 120,000 is more than 61,000. Next thing, they’ll try to tell me that 3 months is less than a year!!!”

        Reply
        • BlueSkies_LA

          3 years ago

          You say 2+2=4 and expect me to believe it?

        • wild bill tetley

          3 years ago

          2 + 2 does equal 4. Did you take common core math or are you making a “bogus” point again? Odds are strong it’s both.

        • SalaryCapMyth

          3 years ago

          https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/

          @ BlueSkies- Just so you can see fatality rates. Or is that misinformation? I bet if I posted sources that said anything like 1% you would take that as a validation that the URL is just part of the misinformation. That must be a nice and lazy way of confirming your own viewpoint.

      • Sarasotaosfan

        3 years ago

        And I don’t want to see people die in accidents going to or coming from a game, but I am not going to suggest not playing games because there will be accidents and deaths jeff.

        Reply
  10. Asfan0780

    3 years ago

    In northern california, my local gyms are supposedly opening next week. If athletes in controlled environments are getting covid, imagine random people gathering in public gyms. Yeah too risky, guess ill stick to doing home and outdoors workouts for the foreseeable future

    Reply
  11. wookiebetts

    3 years ago

    Anyone else notice anytime we get close to having baseball back, or anything normal it starts spiking all over the place. And all right before an election? No? Virus was test in the beginning of this and 70°-75° weather with 80% humidity killed Covid in min.and a half. Now its 90°,100% humidity and it rages on. Someone is fibbing here.

    Reply
  12. anthonyd4412

    3 years ago

    Hopefully not the Assistant to the Traveling Secretary!

    Reply
  13. qbass187

    3 years ago

    BREAKING: All members of the Yankees test positive for cheating.

    Reply
  14. Sarasotaosfan

    3 years ago

    Once upon a time it was not uncommon for entire teams to come down with a virus and they actually played the game anyway.

    Reply
    • BlueSkies_LA

      3 years ago

      Bogus. You don’t understand the concept of communicable disease, do you?

      Reply

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