The New York Mets will play again on Tuesday after their last four games are postponed, as two members of their traveling party tested positive for the coronavirus. Both the player and staff are testing positive experienced symptoms, according to Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen, but both feel better.
Van Wagenen was asked Monday if the team has any idea how and where the two infected people may have picked up the virus.
“We do not,” Van Wagenen replied. “What we all learn is that this virus has far more questions for us than answers. We feel comfortable with the spread. [did] do not come from player-to-player as coach-to-coach. Our best judgment is that it came from something out of place. But that’s all it is, a judgment. “
Major League Baseball announced Monday that all subsequent tests of the Mets, including those taken Sunday, have been negative. The Mets were in Miami when their two employees tested positive. Four close contacts with those infected individuals were later quarantined in South Florida, while the rest of the team returned to New York. Those four were removed and returned to New York.
The Mets’ game Thursday in Miami and their weekend home series against redundant rival Yankees were postponed after the positive tests were announced Thursday.
“It was sober,” Van Wagenen said of learning the test results.
The Mets will play a doubleheader against the Marlins in New York on Tuesday. They will also play games against the Yankees with doubleheaders on Friday and Sunday at Yankee Stadium, as well as a game on September 3 at Citi Field. In all, the team will play nine games in six days to make up for lost time.
“It’s a challenge, but this is a year that can not be about excuses,” Van Wagenen said. “We are not the only team that has to contend with plans.” As a policy, the Mets did not disclose the two individuals who tested positive.
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