A former professional baseball pitcher and three others were killed Friday morning when the small plane he was piloting crashed in the Utah mountains south of Salt Lake City, local authorities said. Tyson Brummett, a 35-year-old player who appeared in a game for the Philadelphia Phillies, died along with his …
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NEW YORK (AP) – Thirty-one Major League Baseball players and seven staff members tested positive for COVID-19 during admission for resumption of training, a rate of 1.2%. MLB and the players’ association announced the results on Friday when teams resumed training for the first time since the coronavirus interrupted spring …
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Yoenis Céspedes’ legs could be the most heavily analyzed body part in spring training 2.0 for the Mets. If you can run, you can play. And from the reports received by manager Luis Rojas, Céspedes was running during the COVID-19 dismissal. “I know he was still on a progression while …
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Citi Field opened for baseball on Friday, with hand sanitizers near each foul line, socially spaced markers, and masks for players and staff. About 113 days after the COVID-19 outbreak closed spring training, the Mets retrained for a 2020 season that they hope will materialize. More than three staggered sessions …
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It was a long way from Iowa, but Palm Beach High School could have gone through another Dream Field last month, when a series of All-Stars worked while trying to stay in shape during the closure of the Major League Baseball. As first reported by The Athletic, more than 30 …
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