Joey Gallo joined his Rangers teammates in Summer Camp activities Friday after the slugger passed two COVID-19 tests. Gallo originally tested positive for the coronavirus back on June 29, albeit in somewhat unusual circumstances.
As Gallo told the Associated Press and other media, he twice tested positive for the virus after taking the saliva test, while a swab test in between those two positive results produced a negative diagnosis. He never had any symptoms, leaving Gallo rather unsure as to whether or not he actually had COVID-19, and he said he is “now on edge” whenever he has to take another saliva test.
Regardless, Gallo was given the green light for Summer Camp activities in the wake of his two-week quarantine and subsequent negative testing, putting him potentially on track to be part of the Rangers’ Opening Day lineup. Texas begins play on July 24, making it almost exactly one year since Gallo’s last appearance in a big league game, as a fractured hamate bone resulted in the end of his 2019 season.
Between the hamate fracture and an oblique strain, Gallo was limited to only 70 games, though he made the most of his playing time by hitting .253/.389/.598 with 22 homers in 297 plate appearances. This performance earned Gallo his first All-Star appearance.
I saw this news break yesterday, and that got me thinking about something. Mark, on the “contact” portion of the MLBTR’s website it says I can send a message to MLBTR about rumors and such. If I see a rumor that I wanted to tell y’all that I saw, and I send you a message about it through “contact”, will it be read or do y’all not check those very often. I’m not being rude when I say this BTW, I have just noticed some articles that come out 10 hours or even a day or so after the story breaks. I’d like to help out by sending a message here or there about maybe not a MAJOR story like “Mets have potential buyers”, but maybe a “Nick Solak tears hamstring”. Though if the contacts aren’t read fairly often, then obviously it’d be a moot point to do that lol.
I’ve rambled. All of the people here at MLBTR’s do a good job putting out free, well thought out content, but I was just wondering if that was a way I could chip in.
You’re hired
Agreed
There not always on top of everything but 80%+ of the time this website has the story within 10 mins and are so of the quickest movers in the industry
Just follow all the baseball beat writers on twitter, you’ll get news a lot faster. This site is better as an aggregator, and for some actual analysis, but if you just want the headlines as quickly as possible, it’s not the best place. I’ve seen them miss entire stories, or not post them for a day. No criticism of them, it’s the nature of journalism– you’re not going to get to every single story as quickly as you wish– but just addressing your comment.
Hmm…thanks but id rather cut off my left arm then get a Twitter acct…
Appreciate the advice/response though
stupid comment on my part, but Solak didnt actually tear a hamstring, right?
BTW Darkside, Solak didn’t tear his hamstring.It was just an example.
@rangers29
Have you toured the new stadium yet?
No, @CowboysoldierFTW. I live about 3 and a half hours south of Dallas, about 30 miles out of Austin. If I am going up to Arlington to see the stadium, it will be for a game. I know they had the “sneak peek” event a few months ago, but I didn’t go. Definitely gonna try to go in 21′.