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Giants Resume Workouts

By Steve Adams | July 8, 2020 at 11:00am CDT

July 8: The Giants received their test results from Saturday this morning, per a team announcement. All were negative among both players and staff, and workouts will resume today. It’s not clear whether they’ve had an additional wave of results since those now-four-day old tests.

July 7, 2:45pm: The Giants have yet to receive results from Saturday’s batch of tests, manager Gabe Kapler tells reporters (Twitter link via Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area). Their hope is to receive those tests today and return to workouts Wednesday.

2:20pm: The Giants announced Tuesday afternoon that Summer Camp workouts at Oracle Park have been suspended, pending results from this weekend’s wave of COVID-19 testing (Twitter link via Kerry Crowley of the San Jose Mercury News). It seems the club has still not received results from Major League Baseball’s lab in Salt Lake City, Utah.

They’re not the first team to suspend or postpone workouts due to lags in the testing process. Both the Astros and Nationals called off Monday workouts for the same reason. In a statement on the matter, Nats GM Mike Rizzo offered particularly pointed criticism of the league’s testing inadequacies — apparently much to the chagrin of commissioner Rob Manfred. The cancellations by the Nats and Astros, as well as delays from clubs like the Angels and Athletics, led to broad criticism for the league, prompting Manfred’s office to issue a statement defending their testing procedures.

Notably, the league chalked up the delays to “unforeseen delays” due to the July 4 weekend and concluded that “we do not expect a recurrence.” Expected or not, it appears some kinks in the system still need to be ironed out.

The Giants have been able to get the results of some tests, as outfield prospect Hunter Bishop and minor league righty Luis Madero are both known to have previously tested positive. However, MLB’s testing protocols call for tests to be performed every other day. To this point, collecting, shipping, testing and processing all of those samples in a timely fashion has proven difficult. The league and the MLBPA are in the process of searching for a second testing site, which could help to avoid further issues like the early ones we’ve seen so far.

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  1. baseballpun

    9 months ago

    You’d think people at Oracle Park would’ve seen this coming.

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    • tward09

      9 months ago

      why?

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      • erauber

        9 months ago

        Cause Oracles can see the future. Dads get other dad jokes

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    • retire21

      9 months ago

      Is this park in Delphi?

      6 Like
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      • baseballpun

        9 months ago

        *tips hat*

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      • Steve Nebraska

        9 months ago

        I heard the seats in the Pythia section were quite the view

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        • SalaryCapMyth

          9 months ago

          LOL! Such cerebral humor. >=}

          Alright that’s it. MLBTR, we need these message boards emoji enabled!!! =)

          1 Like
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        • BlueSkies_LA

          9 months ago

          Only if you’re a seer. The sayers of soothes have to sit in the upper deck.

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  2. kreckert

    9 months ago

    This is all just so futile. I just do not see one ounce of evidence that suggests to me that this season is safely playable.

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    • clrrogers

      9 months ago

      Well, not with an avatar like that.

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    • WiffleBall

      9 months ago

      I don’t know about safely, but certainly with travel between 25 cities and 2 countries, with current protocols– quarantining, isolating, etc– I don’t see how you can field 30 competitive teams every day for 60 days.

      Does anyone want to see two minor league rosters playing in a world series?

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      • Scottn59c

        9 months ago

        This season doesn’t count.

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        • WiffleBall

          9 months ago

          Counting or not, does anyone really want to see a World Series with minor league players? I believe the 2020 CBA does include a clause whereby the league can cancel play if teams “cannot field competitive rosters”.

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        • Steve Nebraska

          9 months ago

          So the Tigers can cancel the season?

          4 Like
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        • Buzz Saw

          9 months ago

          COVID = Cancel Or Void It Dummies

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        • Painful itch

          9 months ago

          At this point, I’d watch your backyard waffle ball league if it was televised.

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        • baseballpun

          9 months ago

          KBO, baby!

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        • Buzz Saw

          9 months ago

          Did someone say waffles?

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        • whyhayzee

          9 months ago

          I’m more of a pancake ball guy myself.

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        • SalaryCapMyth

          9 months ago

          @buz. Have you not been informed?!?!

          Pancakes > Waffles

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        • antibelt

          9 months ago

          Am I the only guy who pays baseball with a tennis ball and whiffle ball bat?

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        • gozurman1

          9 months ago

          Better watching live baseball than watching reruns of reruns of classic games that are now being replayed already……..

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    • DubsDynasty

      9 months ago

      speaking of ounces…….Has anyone else seen that Pic of Pablo Sandoval? Holy Cow. Dude is HUGE.. Dude showed up to camp sooooo overweight. A total Fatso. He looks completely incapable of tying his own shoelace let alone perform as a professional Athlete. The Giants.LOL

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      • Datashark

        9 months ago

        Future Offensive Lineman, after baseball career.

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        • gozurman1

          9 months ago

          Nose Tackle :)

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      • tad2b13

        9 months ago

        DubsDynasty:

        So what? Sandoval is on the roster on a minor league deal. If he’s too fat to play he’s gone. It won’t cost the Giants a thing.

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  3. DarkSide830

    9 months ago

    the league needs to process the tests at each team’s stadiums. that would make this much easier.

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    • WiffleBall

      9 months ago

      Unfortunately it would mean setting up 30 high grade medical testing labs. Another reason why all 30 teams playing at home is a bad idea. If it were 3 or 4 cities, each with 3 or 4 fields, it could have worked as you suggest.

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      • ldoggnation

        9 months ago

        They should have stuck with just Arizona or AZ and Florida.

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  4. mlbdodgerfan2015

    9 months ago

    Do we have a poll? Season starts and gets played. Season never starts and we are done. Season starts and is cancelled at some point during the season.

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    • WiffleBall

      9 months ago

      I think barring some new crisis in the next 3 weeks (like a huge rise in deaths, and stay at home order in a major city) it starts, but ends either due to said order in a major city, or simply because too many major league level players are in quarantine midway through the season, and some team (or multiple) wind up starting more minor leaguers than not.

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      • mlbdodgerfan2015

        9 months ago

        Yeah, seems like Manfred is intent on getting through the season. But a lot of positive tests and more players/coaches opting out. It’s scary when those around you are testing positive and the testing is not doing much to prevent the spreading. Seems like a disaster waiting to happen.

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        • HubcapDiamondStarHalo

          9 months ago

          “The reality is that we’re going to be lucky if we [get] 60 games now given the course of the virus.”

          From MLBTR: mlbtraderumors.com/2020/07/rob-manfred-clarify-com…

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    • jpm9q3

      9 months ago

      Season starts and gets played. Individual games are cancelled, but the season goes on.

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      • gozurman1

        9 months ago

        I agree with your scenario. Season will be played but some individual games canceled.

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  5. bogs79

    9 months ago

    So all that uproar about commenting policy and nothing changed. Slow clap.

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    • DarkSide830

      9 months ago

      i dont know if it’s been as bad so far

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      • gozurman1

        9 months ago

        Nowhere near as bad as it was before the pause and new rules. Used to be some real nasty name calling.

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    • MWeller77

      9 months ago

      I agree with Dark Side; I haven’t seen the same level of vitriol…it seems like it’s working so far

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  6. Sbay22

    9 months ago

    Fourth of July delays? Who could have seen this coming on the calendar? Manfred is the worst

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  7. Bill Skiles

    9 months ago

    Dodgers supposed to play the Giants and then the Astros, both of which may not be ready if they don’t get these tests done soon.
    .

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  8. mike156

    9 months ago

    As a matter of good business, you would think MLB would have done a better job of sourcing the testing. Better now than later, but it should have been done already. There were a lot of reasons (economic and health being obvious) for not having a season. But bad planning shouldn’t be one of them. Mistakes were made, now they need to be fixed.

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  9. John Campbell

    9 months ago

    It’s not looking good.
    I still haven’t heard anything about whether the Jays can play in Toronto.

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  10. toooldtocare

    9 months ago

    Rarely does a plan of this magnitude goes smoothly from the outset. Adjustments need to be made, and hopefully they can get back on track. Seems pretty ambitious to test every other day and get results back quickly.

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  11. Cara Steen

    9 months ago

    There will be cancelled games, unlikely to be made up as teams have to shut down during this abbreviated season.
    Cancel it already.

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  12. Dorothy_Mantooth

    9 months ago

    They really need to have regional testing sites across the country. Using just one lab in a recipe for disaster. Summer weather (thunderstorms, tornados, etc..) ground planes all the time, along with the 4th of July apparently. Given the need to get the results back so quickly, they have to use much more than one facility to do this effectively.

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    • BlueSkies_LA

      9 months ago

      The plan was poorly conceived and badly executed. MLB must have the most inept management of any professional sport.

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      • Cam

        9 months ago

        I’m inclined to agree – they are really making a hash of things.

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      • gozurman1

        9 months ago

        The fun has just begun for the NFL. Now that they are having to consider the possibility of an altered season and reduction of TV money because of it, They are starting to talk about some concessions from the players and of course the players are having none of it to start. The NFL and NFLPA will be just as ugly as the MLB/MLBPA fight was/is.

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    • HubcapDiamondStarHalo

      9 months ago

      Agree with your post… and to me, the most frightening part of it is the delay caused by the 4th of July holiday. The ONE thing on your list that can be planned for and this happens…

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  13. troll

    9 months ago

    i don’t see why the schedule has teams going to the same parks twice. just play a seven game home and then go to other park and play seven. same two teams together for 14 days

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    • BlueSkies_LA

      9 months ago

      The theory is the visiting teams won’t be cooped up in hotels for days at a time so the players will be less tempted to go looking for something to do. We’ll see how that works out.

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  14. giantsphan12

    9 months ago

    Now that some teams (Giants, As, Astros, Nats) haven’t even gotten their “intake” results back yet, but do have player’s congregating at the parks, we may already have the virus spreading among those teams, their staff, etc. I think it will only take one mini-outbreak on one team and you’ll see most veterans, league wide, who have made the bulk of their career income opt out. Then, MLB may have to throw in the towel. It’s too bad that MLB had three months to work out the testing protocols and still messed it up, causing yet another snag to the possibility of a season. Oh geez….

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  15. rangerslegend34107

    9 months ago

    They should of held the season at the Spring Training facilities as they originally discussed. Centralize everyone and try to streamline testing more efficiently. Having the whole league spread across the country and only having one testing facility is a joke. Some teams are going to be put at a disadvantage simply because of the logistics. They’re also leaving big gaps open so teams could see a spike in cases simply because they don’t have test results back. They need to get a handle on this right now. If one team has a breakout then the whole season is done.

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  16. Ducky Buckin Fent

    9 months ago

    I know it’s easy to look at this as… well a fiasco.
    Hey, maybe it is.

    But in my experience just trying to get our company of a mere ~ 60 employees through this I’ve found it’s really hard to foresee everything.

    Good example: “how, exactly, do I pull a building permit, sir?” As we were figuring out how to move forward so was *everyone* else. And, my battle has been microscopic compared to what MLB is working through.

    I’m not trying to make excuses or take a side, or whatever.
    Just relating my experience. This is complicated, man. & there’s no real precedent any of us can follow. I didn’t expect it to be smooth.

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  17. whyhayzee

    9 months ago

    Why don’t they just use the same labs that tested for PED’s, they did such a good job with that.

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    • braveshomer

      9 months ago

      hahaha…yes this exactly lol !!! ^^^

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    • CursedRangers

      9 months ago

      Hilarious

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  18. Giants51

    9 months ago

    It’s going to be a long season….. if we have one…

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  19. Datashark

    9 months ago

    The winner this year will be the team that has enough players to make a team by October.

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  20. talking baseball

    9 months ago

    Call the season off before ball players start dying from COVID 19.
    I’ve been a Giants fan for 58 years and what they are doing with this starting and stopping is crazy and stupid.

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  21. qturner

    9 months ago

    Yes, call this season off. Focus on staying as healthy as possible. Live to fight another day. That goes for everyone. Baseball is a game, played by grownups for money. This season is already over.

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    • Darth Nihilus

      9 months ago

      Wrong! The season has just begun and many are happy for it.

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  22. kreckert

    9 months ago

    Well… I still don’t think there’s going to be a season, but it’s nice to have some good news for a change.

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    • MWeller77

      9 months ago

      I agree with you – I appreciate the good news, I don’t think there’s going to be a seaons, and I really hope I’m wrong about the second part

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  23. HubcapDiamondStarHalo

    9 months ago

    I know MLB is scurrying to find more testing capabilities, which is good. I’m sure they realize that if any (all?) teams start running into the danger of four day delays on results, the season has barely a prayer of completing.

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  24. 5TUNT1N

    9 months ago

    Luckily I haven’t needed to get a COVID test, I can only imagine having to get stuck in the nose almost to my brain multiple times a week just to continue my regular day to day. I’m not complaining I’m all for the health safety aspects, just as someone who has to wear a mask for 7-8 hours a day I could only imagine that would get old pretty quick especially if they were not giving my results in a timely manner.

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    • metsfan68

      9 months ago

      I had it..its far from pleasant

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      • gozurman1

        9 months ago

        I have not had a covid test either but have had to have a colonoscopy. Which is worse, prep for a colonoscopy or a covid test? Guessing though having to go through multiple covid tests would at least equal if not out do the prep as you only have to go through it once and be done with it for several years.

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      • HubcapDiamondStarHalo

        9 months ago

        A buddy of mine had to be tested recently (negative, thank the stars). When I asked him how tough it was, he said, “The woman who tested me touched my soul…”

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  25. metsfan68

    9 months ago

    Are you ppl serious, you deleted my response to hubcap? What is wrong with you ppl? Wheres the reason,whats the reason,please tell everyone what made you dump it? Cant wait to hear it

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