Postponed

ued testing and contact tracing involving members of the Twins organization.”

The Twins reportedly underwent a round of COVID-19 testing on Sunday morning, the results of which would not be clear until at least Sunday evening or Monday morning.

Melvin said the A’s will use Monday as an off-day and will determine their pitching order moving forward when the Twins’ situation crystallizes.

“I think every time you can take an off day, especially if there’s a doubleheader the next day, you’re better off taking off days,” Melvin said. “You don’t get that many over the course of the season.”

MLB and the MLBPA agreed before the season to

relax COVID-19-related protocols for clubs where 85 percent of their Tier 1 individuals are fully vaccinated, a number Melvin said his team has not reached but certainly hopes to.

“There would be a lot of relaxation with what we could do and I think everybody wants to and is trying to get back and have some normalcy,” Melvin said. “It’s very difficult, at least in my case,

to manage with a mask on. A lot of stuff that you have to be aware of around the clubhouse. Obviously, you do it for safety but we’re not there yet.”

Melvin was rather reserved when asked if he was confident the A’s organization can reach the 85 percent threshold.

“I don’t know,” he said. “I would say we’re fairly close but this is something that’s difficult to try and push on anybody. We’ll see.”