In the latest Blue Jays notebook, ShiDavidi looks at how a player can return to the field after testing positive for COVID-19, the conclusion of Resse McGuire's case and options for non-roster players in limbo.
TORONTO – An oft-touted tenet of Major League Baseball’s health and safety protocol is that any player infected with COVID-19 must produce two negative tests before he can return to the field.
And that’s also why the initial slate of positive results upon intake – 31 players and seven staffers across 19 teams out of 3,185 samples as announced Friday – can be viewed as a by-product of the communities people arrived from, rather than an ominous indication of MLB’s ability to keep clubhouses safe from this point forward.
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