Specific players and teams involved were not identified under MLB policy.
In all, 18 of those 23 were players. A total of 13 clubs have had a positive test in the monitoring period.
Counting intake screening and monitoring tests by MLB, there have been 93 positive tests, 80 of them by players, from 21,701 samples, a 0.4% positive rate since June 27. The MLB season, which has been shortened to 60 games per club due to the coronavirus pandemic, is set to begin Thursday, July 23, with the New York Yankees at reigning World Series champion Washington and the San Francisco Giants at the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Teams will play in home stadiums without spectators due to the virus outbreak, which prevented the start of the 2020 campaign in March.
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