Given the scope of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, there was little doubt a professional baseball player would eventually test positive for COVID-19. Today, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported that a Yankees minor league player tested positive. The player is the first reported case among professional baseball players.
Passan reported further that the player apparently only spent time at the minor league side of the Yankees’ spring training facility, which is roughly a mile away from the major league portion. Of course, this does not mean that players on the major league side of the facility were completely safe from exposure to the virus, given how quickly it can spread, and the many other minor league players at the facility surely could been exposed.