Cleveland manager Terry Francona announced Sunday that two of his team’s biggest stars have been out indefinitely after violating Major League Baseball’s COVID-19 protocol.
After All-Star third baseman Jose Ramirez and slogger Frenmil Reyes were released Friday night after a haircut and a pair meal later that night, Francola Reyes left the team from the team’s spring training site in Goodyear, Arizona, on Sunday. told.
“We talked to both of them. Whatever happened, they were honest and honest with us, ” Francona said, According to USA Today. “Fremill, like a repeat criminal. We’re not trying to put people in the penalty box. We try to talk to people almost every day, ‘Hey, it’s gonna happen if – it doesn’t matter Whether you agree with it or not. These are protocols that are in place and you have to live by it. ”
The Revs and Cleveland pitchers Mike Clevinger and Zach Placek also had to spend time away from the team during the COVID-shortened 2020 season for violating league protocol.
“I get it. I get it. … Everyone wants to get rid of their masks and it would be nice to sit in a restaurant. Francona said that those are not the circumstances we’re playing under.” I also know I am that they are young and it is not normal to be a coop.
“It doesn’t have to be just baseball. It is everyone. this is life. But these are the rules under which we are playing and the more we follow them, the better chance it gives us to become a complete baseball team. Because right now, we have lost some people for two, three, four days. It does not help. “
Ramirez finished second in the American League in MVP ballot, the third time in four years he was in the top-3 in voting.
Reece hit 37 home runs for San Diego and Cleveland in 2019, before adding nine in 211 at-bats last season. Cubs reliever Pedro Strop is also being kept away from his team after Rebase removed a tweet recently shown in public together in Arizona.
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