The first baseball player has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Jeff Passan of ESPN.
Passan reported the player is a Yankees minor-leaguer, and that he was quarantined Friday morning.
Passan later added this unnamed player was only on the minor-league side of the team's facility in Tampa. However, with how quickly the virus spreads, that does not necessarily protect those nearby from contracting or spreading it.
Since teams want to ease their major-league players back into their regular season form during spring, minor-leaguers enter just about every spring-training game, even if they are not normally in major-league camp.