Detroit — The excitement of finally having a baseball season to look forward to, albeit a truncated 60-game version, was bound to be tempered by the ever-lingering shadow of the coronavirus.
It didn’t take long for that reality to hit Wednesday when Tigers general manager Al Avila confirmed a player and a staff member had recently tested positive for COVID-19.
“The staff member was not a baseball person and the player was living in Florida, but he wasn’t working out in our facility,” said Avila, who wasn't authorized to release the names.