May 12: Wil Myers, who actually started last night’s game, exited after three innings when the team learned of a positive Covid-19 test, manager Jayce Tingler revealed after the game (link via AJ Cassavell of MLB.com. Eric Hosmer, meanwhile, departed for contact-tracing purposes and has been placed on the injured list as a result. The league’s health-and-safety protocols stipulate that a player who tests positive will be away from the team for at least 10 days.
The Padres selected outfielder Patrick Kivlehan to take Myers’ roster spot. Kivlehan, whom the Padres signed to a minor league deal over the winter, has hit .208/.302/.401 with 10 home runs in 242 PA in the bigs.
May 11, 4:34pm: Tatis tested positive for COVID-19 and is asymptomatic, Dennis Lin of The Athletic tweets. Profar and Mateo are in contact tracing. To fill their open roster spots, the Padres selected the contract of outfielder John Andreoli and recalled a pair of players – infielder/outfielder Tucupita Marcano and righty Nabil Crismatt – per a club announcement.
3:34pm: The Padres announced that they have placed shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. and utilitymen Jurickson Profar and Jorge Mateo on the injured list because of Major League Baseball’s health and safety protocols. They’ll decide on corresponding moves before their game against the Rockies on Tuesday.
As is typically the case in COVID-related situations, there isn’t any word on how much time any of these players will miss. Regardless, it’s a blow to the Padres’ offensive depth. Tatis has gotten off to an effective start, albeit with much less on-base ability than he flashed in his first two seasons, having batted .240/.315/.552 with nine home runs and seven stolen bases in 108 plate appearances. Profar owns a far less imposing .234/.333/.308 line with a home run and five steals over 128 PA, though he has shown off defensive versatility by lining up at first base, second base and both corner outfield spots. And Mateo has hit a useful .250/.325/.417 through his first 40 trips to the plate this year.
This is the second time this year the Padres will have to go some time without Tatis, who was on the 10-day IL for part of April on account of a shoulder injury. They used Jake Cronenworth and Ha-Seong Kim at short in Tatis’ absence then. Profar, meanwhile, has been the Padres’ primary starter in left field, but Tommy Pham hasn’t been far behind. He figures to get the lion’s share of action there with Profar out.
Did they just get vaccinated and are now facing symptoms? Or did they get caught without a mask at the local menards?
They went to the convenient store to pick up some Big Red before the game without their bubble suit.
If you don’t chew Big Red… (bleep) you
If you aint first youre last.
Break it Pepe Le Pew
dang right!!!
I like to picture Jesus in a tuxedo t-shirt cuz it says like, I wanna be formal, but I’m here to party too. I like to party, so I like my Jesus to party
No. They caught Covid.
They sat on dirty toilet seats.
Masks do little to protect the wearer, they protect people from the wearer. If you are catching Covid after getting vaccinated, chances are you are being careless.
But I don’t care, get vaccinated, be part of the solution and live your life.
He borrowed someone’s woodwind reed in band.
Give me more cowbell
Menage a Trois?
Must of broke those frenchy’s laws
Girls, Girls,Girls
Someone must have coughed by them. I wonder if they were sitting down without masks on, as opposed to standing with masks on. Logic has gone completely out the window in this ridiculous country.
Ok, move to India and see how you like it.
Ha, ha, wellllll,,,,,,,,, Lighten up Francis!
Bye Felicia!
People still say Bye Felicia? Gotcha man. First flight out.
Sure thing Art. Keep trollin’ my friend. You stay hip with those Bye Felicia quips.
Thank you for your support, Felicia. Means a ton!
I heard there are 5g towers in India..look out
The troll got so owned as a troll he had to complain someone was trolling him
MLBTR in a nutshell
@BeforeMcCourt,
The barrel rate, exit velocity, and launch angle of this reply are otherworldly. Please enjoy your epic bat flip and slow jog around the bases.
All three tested positive for COVID.
You’re awfully quiet since news of Tatis’ positive test.
Spoke before engaging your brain again huh?
‘Murica!
Interestingly I noticed Wil Myers has been wearing a mask during games this season. I don’t think I ever saw him do that last season.
Unfortunately this virus is just a ….. You know. He could be safe and serious. But at home is he married? Did he take it off near a trainer? One person making a bad decision can easily give it to him, a man taking it seriously.
I’ve seen people thinking it’s fake not get it. I’ve seen people practically living in bubble suits and bathed in sanitizer get it (I just want to be pure).
So in general it’s just a shame that it’s not easy to hide from, especially a man who has to deal with what, 50 people at least on a daily basis? So many cliches you know, but a chain is only strong as….
Buxton, Springer, Tatis — the gods are now satisfied.
Spare the virgins until Trout.
@Rundmc
Thank you for the chuckle, that was unexpected! Lol
Wow, that’s quite a few players to get injured/sick at one time.
Or it’s a small group of players who got caught doing something outside of protocol and they aren’t sick necessarily, but since they’re dumb, they have to quarantine
Doesn’t sound that dumb to me.
I hope they are okay and have no ongoing ill effects, but as a Rockies fan I really appreciate the timing of this.
The whole SD team could get covid and the Rockies still wouldn’t have a chance.
We’ll see..
and only three other position players on the 40. might be getting someone onto the roster if need be.
How does something like this work with the 40 man?
I think the only other position players (not including catchers) that they have on the 40 right now that are not on the IL are Marcano and O’Grady. I’m assuming they’ll want to add someone else to the roster as well…
Good question as the Pads 40 man roster is full of IL’d pitchers many of which have run out of options. I think they have to treat this player by player, and with Ona out, that leaves Marcano and O’Grady as only position players to call up, and the third will be a pitcher, probably Crismatt.. 2021 rules allow teams to take 5 additional players along (Taxi Squad), I don’t know who those are but they’d be available tonight.
I’m not sure who or how the “taxi squad” works in 2021 but Marcano and O’Grady both played in Tacoma Sunday for El Paso so, are they with the team after the game? Pads were on road in SF so they couldn’t have been in SF with teams. Someone know who the taxi squad is? It was different in 2020 as there were no minor leagues.
I think the taxi squad is designated (up to 5 guys) for each road trip. Not sure if Covid rules allow for it to be adjusted within a road trip.
looks like a rain out (or snow out) is a real possibility tonight, and that would be fine with me – sending Lamet’s arm out into 38 F doesn’t seem wise.
Lamet won’t be in long 1or 2 innings
COVID IL works like the 60 day, but you cab activate a guy when you wish.
If a player is added to the COVID IL, then people can be added to the 40 man and then taken off the 40 man without passing through waivers.
Thanks for explanation. Makes sense this way which is a great reason why Union wouldn’t like it (the part about removing from 40 without waivers).
Yes, appreciated. Assuming all goes well, Mateo and Profar could get through contact tracing and become available within 24 hours.
As for Tatis, I hope he fares well. One of my associates is a healthy 28 year old triathlete who was initially asymptomatic, but has experienced a post-Covid funk for two months.. Seriously fatigued.
did any of the three players that tested positive I read that they all have not gotten the covid shot?
Kim to SS
Pham to OF
Marcano and O Grady probably get called up
Such a joke. If Padres lose the games that Tatis misses and they miss the playoffs by said number of games, (all because of his deadly asymptomatic infection), it will be a bigger disgrace than when Holliday missed home plate! Enough of this “sick, but not sick” garbage. Isn’t everyone in MLB vaxxed anyway?
“ Isn’t everyone in MLB vaxxed anyway?”
No
2. And more importantly. Teams are getting full capacity back. If mlb has an outbreak that spreads to fans…. hundreds of millions of dollars are down the drain for the 2nd straight year. Complain as much as you want, it’s risk/reward for the game
@McCourt, Every single day “more people die than died in 9/11”…every single day. About 8k Americans die every day, from various causes. The virus is real and every death it has caused are tragic, but some perspective would be nice. These are young, healthy athletes with functioning immune systems. They don’t go swapping spit with the fans or sneeze all over them. Let them play, this is beyond ridiculous.
Let them play? He’s tested positive for a disease that’s put the entire world in a pandemic. Not all players are always healthy athletes with functioning immune systems too. Have you forgotten about players like Trey Mancini and Carlos Carrasco who recently have dealt with bouts with cancer? How about all the coaches, media members and stadium employees that are in close proximity to the players? It’s ridiculous to put all their lives and their family’s lives at risk just so a player could play sick with Covid.
Yep, protect the sick and let the healthy play. Trey and Carlos have the freedom to opt out. We’ve essentially destroyed so many lives for the very few who needed protection from this virus. Instead we followed the ‘scientists’ rather than the science and we’re all worse off for it.
PhD you seem to have deeper issues than we can resolve on this site as reflected in the fact that you refer to all that have died, all of their families and those that got very sick, yet didn’t die, as “the very few”.
~600k out of 330M is very few, especially considering many of these would have likely died from other causes over the last 15 months. It is still very sad and I have tremendous sympathy for anyone who lost someone. Sorry you like to try to shame others when you can’t comprehend math or statistics.
So you don’t count the illnesses because they didn’t die meaning you didn’t think they were “at risk”? Oh, and the rest of the world doesn’t count either, just US deaths? Is that you Donald?
Yeah I’m an idiot – the WORLD decided this was serious enough to take these precautions, but I’m the idiot? What the WORLD did is wrong in your eyes – what you said, “protecting the very few”.
He’s not healthy, that’s the point. He’s a carrier of a deadly virus. If you cannot understand the implications of that, you’re wasting your time with every reply.
You’ll have to suck up not being able to see him for 10 days or so. Are you going to be okay? Will your home life be alright? I hope your fantasy team doesn’t suffer too much.
Please, tell us more about how you’re a victim of missing entertainment. Enlighten us.
Untethered from reality must feel cozy
@cam, I don’t need to tell you about missing entertainment, you’ve already mentioned it, thanks. But, I’m not a victim, my guess is that is more your style. Also, I appreciate your concern about my home life, I think I’ll survive. Not sure society will, though.
600k out of 330M is not very few. It’s 1 in 550 people, and that’s only the deaths, nevermind the larger number of people with lengthy recoveries and potentially permanent side effects.
Go out and talk to people. I don’t think there’s a single American who doesn’t know someone who has died from COVID at this point. If they don’t, then they sure as heck know someone second-hand. It’s awful. There are literally dozens of students at my wife’s school who have lost a grandparent or parent. We know multiple people on our block who lost friends, and not just old people. How can you so callously dismiss SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND deaths?
Dude that’s nonsense. All of it
No, they would not have “died from other causes” without COVID. Go read up on excess deaths. If anything, the official COVID counts are underestimating based on the number of additional deaths (closer to 900k) than would normally be expected over the last 15 months.
A virus that’s no deadlier than the flu. People act like it’s Ebola, which is an actual deadly disease.
No, actually we destroyed very few lives but the weak couldn’t follow the simple rules, so we killed way too many lives.
You really are low intelligence
@ted, I guarantee you that I have interacted with and talked to more people than you over the past 15 months. I’ve not been hiding in my parent’s basement playing virtual DnD and ordering soy lattes from UberEats. And again, I am not dismissing any deaths. I don’t dismiss the >300k excess deaths that occurred in 2020, why are you dismissing the over 3M other deaths that occurred in 2020? Why are YOU dismissing the hundreds of thousands of ruined or severely hampered lives due to the shutdowns? Get some perspective, please.
PhD – I’m not an expert on COVID and I don’t play a doctor on TV but guessing that Tatis isn’t vaxxed since he tested positive.
@Long, he could be vaxxed and still get COVID. These vaccines don’t produce sterilizing immunity
PHD.. That’s quite a stretch. There’s about a 5% chance of getting Covid if you’ve had the Phizer or Moderna vaccine. You’re in denial.
No rondon. The 5% figure you’ve quoted means that one of every 20 people who get the vaccine could still get “moderate to severe infection”.. But is it fully effective at preventing asymptomatic disease? Results of early studies say no.. Being vaccinated doesn’t protect you from getting and spreading Covid, but it greatly helps your body deal with Covid if you’re infected.
There’s an open question about how much the vaccine is going to decrease transmission, but at this point the science suggests that even if vaccinated, behave as if you’re not, so as to protect those who are not vaccinated.
Brewer… It means that it’s 95% effective in preventing you from contracting COVID. So if you’re concerned about the remote possibility of being asymptomatic, the answer is for more people to be vaccinated. That’s how it’s designed to be most effective. Politics or whatever aside, the problem is not with those who are vaccinated, it’s with those who are not..
@PhDPad
Another word for “asymptomatic” is “carrier.” Typhoid Mary never came down with the fever herself but infected dozens of people, some of whom died, because she kept working and interacting with the public.
Opposing ballplayers frequently interact in close quarters during the course of gameplay, whether it’s an infielder applying a tag to a runner or a first baseman holding a runner on. Covid is still dangerous. It sucks from a fan’s perspective, sure, but some things are more important than winning baseball games.
@DrDan, please show me the peer reviewed study of how COVID can be passed from a tag play. Don’t you see how silly and scared that sounds? COViD is dangerous for immune compromised, comorbid and elderly. Please show me the MLB game that couldn’t be done with only young and healthy people…and yes, the asymptomatic Myers and Tatis included.
Didn’t Tatis already test positive for being overrated?
Nicely done!
Ian, he is the first player in the history of baseball to hit 40 home runs and 30 steals in his first 162 games. Overrated? Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good argument.
For one, his defense has been vastly overrated on this board repeatedly over the past few months
Defense was good in 2020
Playing with a hurt shoulder in 2021
46 HRs, 31 SBs in first 162 games. New gold standard
Brewer,Go ahead and downplay it if you want. It’s never been done in the history of baseball before. Just shows you have no objectivity on this subject.
@ nutz. Huh? Downplay what? I merely reported (and supported your point) the actual 162 game totals which is even more impressive than the 40/30 bar. Hardly deserving of insult.
Looks like he has fallen off the new gold standard in 2021.
Sorry if I misinterpreted your post. Sounded sarcastic to me.
@ nutz. no worries, I know how sarcasm seems to dominate here. But I’m a big fan of Tatis
@Ian
He’s only overrated in your eyes because he’s not wearing your team’s uniform.
Overrated is just a judgement call. Maybe he’s overrated if people refer to him as the next Trout. But even if he isn’t and therefore is overrated, he’s still a pretty great player. I would take overrated players like him any day.
So getting vaccinated doesn’t prevent you from contracting the virus; it just prevents the virus from replicating in your system. You still have it, and depending on your active viral lode, are susceptible to transmitting it.
But beyond that, let’s appreciate that the Pads have the greatest collection of names in MLB….Tucapita Marcano…Nabil Crissmatt…..Agatha Christie couldn’t make up names like that………
Didn’t see your comment until after I posted mine below, but obviously great minds think alike… you’re right, Nabil Crismatt sounds like he should be in Murder on the Orient Express.
“Crismatt Kills Casetti”………(he had help of course)….
Tucupita Marcano is from Tucupita, Venezuela. I wonder if everybody from that pueblo is named Tucupita.
Nabil Crismatt is from Barranquilla Colombia. Nabil is short for Barranquilla. I just made that up but I used to have a costeña girlfriend from there. They are known for their Carnival celebration.
Hence why people, even with the vaccine, should continue wearing masks while interacting with others not in their normal circle of contact, or if that group has contact with others (ie, players going home to their families then coming back to clubhouse).
It’ll be interesting, if we ever get the answers, if Tatis was vaccinated before this happened. Of course we may never know
All I can say is this. The virus zapped my 24 year old sister of enough energy to even go to the grocery store without stopping for rest, for over 3 months. She’s a nurse who normally works 24 hours shifts. I hope Tatis and the others remain asymptomatic. If you don’t know anyone close whos had a significant battle with covid, consider yourself lucky. It’s a nasty SOB when it grabs hold
I don’t believe you. It’s that simple I just don’t believe you. I don’t know anyone. I think it’s all nonsense.
@ Joel. Do you believe the earth revolves around the sun? What’s your evidence?
Dude there is no real evidence of anything. You keep watching CNN if you want. Watch close. Watch the commercials which BTW are half drug companies trying to sell you drugs you don’t need.
Look fella they blocked comments on this for a while. I got things to say too. And if you don’t want to have a real conversation fine. But I have opinions too.
Joel, CNN didn’t inform me about the earth’s revolution, nor did Faux news. You should consider better sources for developing critical thinking other than the daily news cycle.
So does pneumonia and the flu. Masks are pointless. Such a deadly disease that you need a actual test to know if you have it. COVID is not Ebola which is a real nasty disease.
Exactly. In 20 years we are going to look back on this as a complete joke.
Look at what is going on in India and tell us if you still think it’s all a joke.
Glad to know 20 years from now at age 32 you’ll still have a sense of humor
I’ve been a good soldier for over a year now. Done almost everything that the so-called experts have recommended. I’m fully vaccinated with an experimental vaccine for a virus that was never a threat to me. I will no longer wear a mask outside, regardless of who is around me or if it makes them uncomfortable. Everyone who wants a vaccine can get one at this point. You don’t get to pick and choose what science to follow. I’m choosing to breathe unobstructed now instead of protecting strangers who can be vaccinated if they want. And if you can’t handle the vaccine, then maybe your number was just up. It happens in nature all the time.
Keep being you brother. It’s good they opened these comments up. Tired of listening to just one side.
There’s a silent majority who like you isn’t caught in the narrative of the only “deadly virus” in history that most who have it don’t know it. I’ve lost friends, it’s real, but over 99% of those without comorbidities will be just fine. We aren’t getting these “locked in my own house healthy” days back. None of us are.
Tucupita Marcano is up there as an all-time great baseball name, one that I would have enjoyed hearing Harry Caray announce. Nabil Crismatt is not a bad one either.
Think about how much Harry would have slobbered whole spitting out Cronenworth!
How about Aquimedes Caminero.
Tatis, an effective start? a .240/.315/.552 stat line sucks, especially with that big f-n contract. Come on Connor, tell it like it is, he stinkin’ it up. Not trashing Jr., more like trashing this confused writer. Anybody else with stats like this gets bad press or is .240 the new .300?
.240 is definitely the new .300 and every team and player will get participation trophies starting this season as well. It’s like a while back when they tried to tell us that it was okay for a player to strike out 150 times as long as he drove in 80 plus runs with his 25 home runs.
Mystery – I don’t really disagree with where you are coming from on a high strikeout player but I was curious and found that only 65 players had more than 80 RBI in 2019. I don’t disagree with the fact that strikeouts are bad and nonproductive outs, etc., but I think the concept of adding an 80 + RBI guy to my line up when only 65 guys in all of mlb exceeded that amount, sounds like an upgrade somewhere in my lineup when the goal is to score more runs.
especially at SS position
Lmao at thinking RBIs indicate that player has a skill
How do you “add” an 80 RBI guy to the lineup? Players don’t create RBI.
The typical 3-4-5 hitters in your lineup should be your high rbi guys. They are the ones who have the best hit tool and hopefully get hits with RISP. It is important that the 1-2 hitters do their jobs and get on base. Those are your high on base average guys. So you’re right in that the players don’t create RsBI in a vacuum, but they are clutch and drive the ball. It’s been the recipe for MLB batting orders for a few decades now.
All of you Tatis haters seem to forget that the guy is just 22 years old. Most players are still in the minors at his age. He is still learning and making some mistakes along the way.
Check back in when he’s about the same age Machado is today and let’s see what kind of a player he is.
if 240 after 96 injury-riddled ABs is your idea of stinking it up, then I guess you’re also writing off Lindor, Freeman, Goldschmidt, Judge, Blackmon,Torres, Votto, Rizzo, Muncy, Ozuna. But none of them are top 10 in SB and HR like Tati is. Hey if he’s 240 at end of season, then talk about it, but it’s early May, and BA alone doesn’t mean much.
I agree. This group of players are stinking it up.
That’s why I say if a player is producing around the league average, then pay them accordingly. None of these guys are earning their money. They are paid superstar dollars while producing average (or less) results. It makes baseball boring and disappointing to watch. ZZZ
Anthony Rizzo is under paid. He still has a .347 OBP and more walks than strikeouts. This is his final year of a 9/75 contract. It looks like his power numbers are down but I dont think its fair to say he isnt earning his money.
Let’s not forget the 11 errors so far this season. Top 10 in SB (a stupid stat) and HRs (the most important stat). Also number 1 in errors committed (far more important than SB, far less important than HR)
Tatis is having a so-so season so far, although it is still early.
SD has decided that they will try and take the inside lane whenever they see a glimpse of daylight…. Say what you will either way, but its defiantly intriguing, and in a day and age in baseball that has become rather boring for most franchises
Im all for it personally, its not my money, and if they catch the grass and spin out we all get a great car crash to watch in the meantime (sans the injs)
According to Baseball Reference, the league average batting line right now is .234/.311/.392, so although it doesn’t look like Tatis is doing great from a traditional standpoint, he’s actually hitting above average from a league wide perspective.
But facts, am I right?
That’s an OPS of .867 and that has always been very good, so I really don’t understand this take.
He is also tied for the league in stolen bases and one behind in home runs all while missing 10 games.
He’s a 4 for 4 from being an MVP candidate.
He has a 145 OPS+.
Add Meyers and Hosmer to the list.
Both pulled during the game.
Well this should be a fun double header today lmao
Hosmer Myers Tatis Jr Profar Mateo out
So I guess for both games it’ll be
Cronenworth 1B
Marcano 2B
Kim SS
Pham OF
Andreoli OF
Unless they out Nola somewhere and play caratini at catcher
I wonder if the replacements for Myers and Hosmer will be available for the twinbill today? And wondering who they will be.
Also, emergence of more positive tests today is certainly plausible, given the nature of similar scenarios with other teams/organizations. The antigen (quick) test. generates up to 50% false negatives, and until they get results of the PCR tests (24 -48 hour turnaround) we’ll not fully know the depth of the impact here.
Caratini can play corner infield too
Victor plays corner infield too
Nola played an inning or two at second on Sunday. Tingler’s spidey sense was working overtime.
Covid is a joke, I’ve had it ten times and still haven’t been sick, lol
Tell that to those that have died from COVID-19. I am sure it is a joke to them as well.
Padres may have to activate Damion Easley, Skip Schumaker, and Ryan Flaherty just to fill out the lineup card
Can we do that? Coaches count as Taxi Squaders, amirite? Asking for a Tingler…
It’s coming from the bats. Check the bats & the batboy and get back to me. Thanks for nothing Fouch.
Chase Headley available?
So why is this COVID thread open but the more serious one based on the level of the outbreak closed?
Since Tatis has come back, I think he has shown that he is not overrated. For those of you that say it is too early to tell if he is worth the contract, I say it’s also too early to say he’s not.