Fifteen members of the Miami Marlins have tested positive for the coronavirus, raising fresh questions about Major League Baseball's attempts to conduct a season amid the pandemic.
by the coronavirus pandemic until Friday, while the rest of baseball forges ahead with trepidation.
But MLB came up with a patchwork schedule for the rest of this week and said that among more than 6,400 tests conducted since Friday, there were no new positives involving on-field personnel from any team other than the Marlins. Nine players on the 30-man roster, two taxi squad players and two staff members tested positive earlier.
“We all decided that it was probably unsafe to go there,” Martinez said. “It had nothing to do with the Miami Marlins. It was all about Miami and the state of Florida, this pandemic. They didn’t feel safe.”questions about baseball’s attempts“This could put it in danger,” Fauci said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “I don’t believe they need to stop, but we just need to follow this and see what happens with other teams on a day-by-day basis.
“You think about all the hotel employees, bus drivers, pilots, flight attendants, anybody else all the Marlins guys might have come into contact with, and it’s obviously scary.”
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