Balta1701

Because the Cards are way more than 1 person. These 3 additional tests show that they currently don’t have the outbreak on that team under control. These guys should have been caught earlier in the week, but they weren’t. Can we be 100% sure there aren’t 3 more guys with it on that team waiting for the next round of tests? Or did they pick it up during the week from someone who didn’t get caught by the last tests?

So 50 players in 1 month, at that rate nearly 200 out of 900 will get it by the end of the playoffs? That’s...poor. One step away from awful.

Well that's the opposite of good, even I didn't expect that.

If Madrigal can put up high OBP numbers, this would work. In 2019, the average leadoff hitter OBP was .335 league wide. The best couple of leadoff OBPs were guys like Springer, LeMahieu, and Betts, who were in the .370-380 range. Can Madrigal get that to .360? I don't know. If not, then Robert.

I'd imagine this is a "tricky" setup where there were reports late in the day on Wednesday, maybe even Pacific time on Wednesday, followed by a big surge early in the day on Thursday such that 2000 in a "24 hour period" is actually correct, but not really teaching much more than the daily count.

Most broad scale tests have found ~5% or so of the population of hte US has had it, so let's go with 5%, maybe about 20 million people give or take, which also is a perfect fit with a death rate just under 1%. Off by "many magnitudes" so let's say 3 orders of magnitude. Ergo, you believe 20 billion Americans have had this virus. I see a handful of problems with your estimate. And for "Nobody shrugging anything off", do you want your posts saying "we flattened the curve successfully and that was the goal" fired back at you or the ones where you're mocking the idea that deaths were about to spike from reopening stuff? Your sarcasm...wound up being exactly right, as soon as things opened, the stuff you mockingly said would happen...happened.

You’re still going with this bullshit? Stop.

There's a difference between giving a guy playing time because of injuries and batting the guy cleanup.

They had 5 positive tests across this school district yesterday, so there must be significantly more today. https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-08-05-20-intl/h_e908aba69ef3a873f00b338b1e9a8c24

https://www.nwitimes.com/news/education/senator-urges-hoosiers-to-take-a-little-risk-by-reopening-schools-amid-covid-19-pandemic/article_f7274b6c-4c64-5f1d-a764-fee4a26197b1.html

Is Dunning on the 40-man already?

10 to 1 on the screwed up training schedule.

Not really when he’s missed that much time, as long as we still have control over him and options for another year.if he’s not throwing well now, you might get dramatic improvement by next year with resumes work and a more normal schedule.

Unlike seasons with minor leagues we have no clue how guys have been looking while throwing, go with whoever has looked the best would be my call. Already passed the service time deadline for this year so that doesn’t matter as much.

False positives aren't encouraging. If the MLB is having so many false positive tests that multiple false positive tests are appearing around teams that are having outbreaks, then there is something seriously wrong with their testing program. Either they're somehow screwing up those tests when teams really need the information, or every team is having multiple false-positives every week.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/

They are now saying that he opted out last night and is safe.

Has recently tested negative but who knows. This isn’t fun.

Suggestion. Best way to salvage this/prevent full cancellation of the season due to another outbreak this season was to pause right now and fix what is wrong. The procedures currently are insufficient, which means that it won't be long before there's another team-scale outbreak without significant strengthening to the current safety procedures. Failing to prevent that = potentially losing the season.

Yoan did not come up with a refined approach. Yoan's approach when he came up was so bad he set the record for strikeouts in a season. He showed flashes of being a great player in his exit velocity, but pitchers had a way to get him out, by going to the places in the strike zone he couldn't defend. Robert has those same weaknesses right now, too aggressive, pitchers can fool him into swings and misses. And yet...Robert is doing way more damage than Moncada could do at that point in his career, and Robert's approach is already more refined than Moncada's was at that point, and look at the damage he's doing. As he learns how big league pitchers attack him, and adapts to that...OMG.

This...wasn't hard. Yeah he's that good.

The Royals were playing him....to hit the other way on the double to LF? WTF? They think he sprays the ball the opposite way that much? My goodness.

wow this is such terrible thinking. It’s a virus you f***ing moron, it doesn’t care if you are a quitter or how manly or weak you are. It cares about whether it has opportunity to spread to additional people and that is it. You don’t beat a virus by staring it in the face with your steely eyed determination.

So has anyone else noticed that it’s now August and the reigning AL rookie of the year Yordan Alvarez has been unable to report with no reason given for an entire month now? Can’t guarantee it’s a severe case but that’s exactly what we’d be saying about a player with a severe case.

Yes and that needs to be mandated in the rules, and masks need to be required.