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Camps Have Been Open Less Than One Week, And MLB's Virus Testing Has Been A Mess

MLB's Summer Training camps have been open for less than one week and the first round of testing has gone less than smoothly, to put it mildly.

Failures to deliver test results on time have caused at least six teams to change their schedules. The three weeks of training camp does not allow much, if any, margin for error.

Brittany Ghiroli of The Athletic catalogues the missteps: releasing the results of the first round of testing even though the results for the majority of teams were pending or incomplete, many players having to wait longer than the promised 48 hours to hear test results (because MLB decided to use only one lab (in Utah) to process all of the tests, roughly 14,000 per week), and promised personal protection equipment never being delivered.