Yankees Game Postponed After Positive Coronavirus Tests

Cashman did not know the status of the Yankees’ remaining weekend games with the Red Sox, who are scheduled to be in New York through Sunday. Given the two outbreaks the team has now experienced, he said the Yankees would consider a change in protocols.

“We certainly will re-evaluate everything we have done and if there’s anything we can be better at as we move forward, those are fair questions to ask,” Cashman said. “I don’t have an answer for that right now. I know that we rely on a lot of guidance from medical experts and try to implement to the best of our abilities. We have a population of personnel that most are vaccinated, some have chosen not to get vaccinated, they have their reasons for that. We’re certainly trying to create — Major League Baseball is, as well as the New York Yankees — a safe environment to come work and travel in.”

The Yankees sent three players to the All-Star Game in Denver on Tuesday — Aroldis Chapman, Gerrit Cole and Aaron Judge — but Cashman would not say if they were among the other three players who had positive results via rapid tests.

He did say that not all of the players who could end up positive were vaccinated. And Boston’s Rafael Devers, who was also at the All-Star Game, told ESPN’s Marly Rivera that he was getting tested for the virus because a Yankee All-Star had tested positive. Cora confirmed to reporters that his team’s five All-Stars — Devers, Xander Bogaerts, Matt Barnes, Nathan Eovaldi and J.D. Martinez — were all getting tested, and that not all of those players had been vaccinated.

“Obviously I’m worried now,” Cora said. “Some of them are vaccinated and some of them are not.”

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