In less than one week, the Red Sox have had seven players and two coaches test positive for COVID-19: Kiké Hernández, Christian Arroyo, Hirokazu Sawamura, Xander Bogaerts, Matt Barnes, Martín Pérez, Yairo Muñoz, quality control coach Rámon Vázquez, and strength and conditioning coach Kiyoshi Momose. Two others (pitcher Josh Taylor and first base coach Tom Goodwin) are in quarantine.
Chief Baseball Officer Chaim Bloom:
It's gut-wrenching. How else can you react? . . . We try to go to great lengths to keep these sorts of things from happening, and then to see what's happening now, it's really hard.