AROUND THE HORN

■ MLB: Major League Baseball postponed this weekend’s Subway Series between the Mets and Yankees to allow time for more testing and contact tracing after two members of the Mets tested positive for the coronavirus. The Mets had their game Thursday night in Miami as well as Friday’s opener against the Yankees postponed on Thursday after the results were reported. MLB postponed the rest of the weekend series between the New York teams on Friday “out of an abundance of caution and to allow for additional testing and contact tracing.” The Mets flew home Thursday night and are in New York, and the team said in a statement the traveling party was tested at Citi Field on Friday morning before being sent home to quarantine. The team does not plan to work out this weekend. MLB said Friday that seven of 12,485 samples collected over the last week from players and coaches returned positive COVID-19 results, a positive rate of 0.05%. Three of the positives were players and four were staff members. Of all the samples collected by MLB this season, 0.1% have returned positive, and 19 teams have had a player or staff member test positive. ■ Nationals: RHPStephen Strasburg was diagnosed with carpal tunnel neuritis on his throwing hand after seeing a nerve specialist, manager Dave Martinez said. Martinez said surgery could be an option but he has yet to talk with the 2019 World Series MVP. Strasburg was put on the injured list on Aug. 15, a day after he recorded just two outs in Baltimore. It was the 32year-old’s first appearance on the IL since 2018. After going 18-6 with a 3.32 ERA in 33 starts in 2019, the right-hander is 0-1 this season with a 10.80 ERAin two starts.

■ Yankees: All- Star SS Gleyber Torres and LHP James Paxton have joined the team’s crowded injured list. Torres had an MRI onm Friday that revealed mild strains in his left hamstring and quad, while Paxton had an MRI on Thursday that showed a low-grade strain in his left forearm flexor. Both were added to the IL on Friday. LHP Luis Avilan was also placed on the injured list after an MRI on Thursday revealed left shoulder inflammation. The Yankees are already without star hitters Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and DJ LeMahieu, as well as LHP Zack Britton, RHP Tommy Kahnle and backup C Kyle Higashioka — all on the IL. ... The Yankees also traded RHP David Hale to the Phillies in exchange for righty relief prospect Addison Russ.

■ Royals: The team placed C Salvador Perez on the injured list with lingering vision problems and recalled LHP Randy Rosario to add bullpen help ahead of their three-game series against the Twins. Perez woke up with vision problems Sunday and called Royals trainer Nick Kenney. He wound up visiting a specialist on Monday and was good enough to return to the lineup, but he’s been out with continued blurry vision the rest of the week.