Mets player: MLB should end COVID testing
New York Mets pitcher Chris Bassitt said Thursday he “probably won’t” inform team and Major League Baseball officials if he feels COVID-19 symptoms in the future and that MLB should “just stop testing.”
Bassitt was put on the COVID-19 list on July 1 after complaining about sluggishness to team officials. The right-hander missed his scheduled start against Texas last Friday and rejoined the team Thursday.
“I probably won’t [again],” Bassitt said before the Mets’ series opener against the Miami Marlins. “There’s no way. There’s no reason.”
Bassitt claimed he was asymptomatic.
“Just stop testing. Stop acting like COVID is far worse than a lot of other things,” he said. “I was never sick.”
Baseball’s policy is to test “in symptomatic situations or when a player is in close contact,” Mike Teevan , an MLB spokesman, wrote in an email to the Associated Press.
ETC. Snyder says he’ll testify by video
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In a letter sent to the committee and obtained by the Associated Press, attorney Karen Patton Seymour said Snyder is traveling outside the country and available for video testimony July 28 and 29.
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