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Elephant Rumblings: Cardinals latest team with coronavirus outbreak; several MLB players opt out

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Baseball is not doing well on the coronavirus front. The Miami Marlins were already down for the count after 18 of their 33 active/taxi players tested positive for the virus, and the Philadelphia Phillies also stepped back as a precaution after playing the Marlins despite no new cases among their own players.

Now another team in another geographic region has an outbreak. The St. Louis Cardinals began reporting positive cases on Friday and are now up to six total, including three players, reports Derrick Goold of the St.