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Five Phillies players and three staff have tested positive for COVID-19, the first known outbreak in MLB.
Amid ongoing uncertainty about whether Major League Baseball and the MLBPA will agree on a 2020 season, circumstances surrounding the coronavirus pandemic are certainly now more of a factor than before. For the first time, MLB players have tested positive for the virus — and they belong to the Philadelphia Phillies.
According to NBC Sports Philadelphia’s Jim Salisbury, five Phillies who were training at the team’s Clearwater, Florida, facility — as well as three staff members — have tested positive for coronavirus in “recent days.