“There’s a total of 10 [people] affected,” Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo said on a Zoom call with reporters on Friday afternoon, “... four have tested positive, and six via contact tracing. And nine of those are players and one is a staff member.”
This isn’t how anyone in the nation’s capital wanted the 2021 MLB season to start. A COVID outbreak in advance of Opening Day in D.C. has the Nationals unsure when their season is actually going to start.
Rizzo, the General Manager and President of Baseball ops in Washington did characterize the situation he and his team are in right now as a “crisis” when he was asked what his message for fans is at this point, with the season-opening, three-game series against the New York Mets postponed after four positive tests for COVID-19 since the club left Spring Training in West Palm Beach, FL on Monday.