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        <title><![CDATA[Denny Larrondo identified as Yankees prospect with positive coronavirus test]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>USAGAG — Yankees minor-league pitcher Denny Larrondo was the first professional baseball player to test positive for coronavirus, a source confirmed Monday.</p><p>The 17-year-old right-hander from Cuba was signed by the Yankees in 2018 and pitched 12 games for the Yankees’ Gulf Coast League team last season.</p><p>General manager Brian Cashman declined to comment on the identity of the player. During a conference call on Sunday, Cashman said <strong>an unidentified player was tested on Friday</strong>, had been isolated since then and his symptoms had subsided.</p><p>The Yankees’ minor league complex, located just under a mile from the major league facility and Steinbrenner Field, was cleaned on Sunday and is shut down until March 25.</p><p>Minor leaguers briefly came and went on Monday, picking up prepared food at the front of the minor league facility and then returning to their quarantine.</p><p>Cashman said Monday the facility was closed over the weekend in an abundance of caution, but added security remained in place, as well as other “essential duties.”</p><p>He again noted the team was following the “direction and/or approval of the department of health.”</p><p>Among the minor leaguers to show up Monday was right-hander Austin DeCarr.</p><p>“We’re getting information from the team and it’s working out fine,’’ said the 25-year-old, who last pitched for Class-A Charleston in 2018. “We pick up food here and then go back to wherever we’re staying.”</p><p>DeCarr said he has an apartment nearby, which is where he’s self-quarantined.</p><p>“We’re just taking it a day at a time,’’ DeCarr said.</p><p>Asked if it was a scary situation, being so close to a coronavirus case, DeCarr said, “Not for me. I know there’s one player affected, but we’re all OK.”</p><p>The major league facility was closed Monday after the Yankees had two days of informal workouts, since Monday was a scheduled off day.</p><p>The Yankees could resume workouts at Steinbrenner Tuesday, <strong>but at least several players left the area</strong> or had plans to, after they learned that teams would be cutting back on support staff to comply with the memo sent out by the Commissioners’ Office on Sunday.</p><p>It became clear on Monday that the MLB season won’t get underway until mid-May at the earliest, as commissioner Rob Manfred cited the Center for Disease Control’s recommendation restricting events of more than 50 people for the next eight weeks.</p><p>Manfred declined to point to a potential return date, so it’s unknown when a second spring training might begin.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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