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MLB, Union discuss health, test proposal

Major League Baseball hopes to test players and coaches multiple times per week midseason as part of their presented heath proposal to the Players Association.

This is according to a report by Jared Diamond and Louise Radnofsky.

MLB rosters are expected to be expanded to 30 players, and when factoring coaches, training staff and umpires, that will account for thousands of tests per week and tens of thousands over the course of the abbreviated season.

The league plans to partner with the Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory and turn it into a coronavirus testing facility .