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TB Rays' Meadows Is 2nd Player To Test Positive For Coronavirus
Major League Baseball announced the number of new positive coronavirus tests on Friday and a 2nd Rays player is a confirmed case.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL — Tampa Bay outfielder Austin Meadows has been placed on the injured list after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Meadows is the second Tampa Bay player to test positive for the coronavirus, the Associated Press reported.
Reliever Aaron Loup was added to the 40-man roster in place of Meadows, who was a first-time All-Star and batted .291 with 33 homers and 89 RBIs last season.
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Rays pitcher Tyler Glasnow returned to summer camp on Tuesday after he missed 11 days of practice from taking time away from the team as he recovered after testing positive for coronavirus.
Major League Baseball announced in a news release on Friday that the total number of new positive tests is 93, which is 0.4% of the 21,701 samples taken since the beginning of coronavirus screening of MLB players and staff on June 27.
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Among the 93 positives, 80 have been players and 13 have been staff members, said MLB officials.
Twenty-eight different teams have had a member test positive during all testing.
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