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The day after New York Mets pitcher Chris Bassitt called the Major League Baseball COVID-19 protocol “ridiculous,” his manager endorsed his right to speak his heart.
Mets manager Buck Showalter worked on Bassitt’s comments before New York lost 5-2 to the Miami Marlins on Friday night, and Bassitt was allowed to have his own thoughts, reporters said. Told to.
“I talked to him, we talked to Chris,” Shaw Alter said, according to the New York Post. “Everyone has the right to express his opinion. I have no intention of doing anything politically. He is free to express himself as a human being. We talked to him. I Leave it as it is. “
Bassitt made a bit of a fuss on Thursday, questioning MLB’s COVID-19 protocol after returning from the IL stint because of a positive COVID-19 test.
Chris Bassitt of the Mets regrets informing the team of a positive COVID test: “I shouldn’t have said anything.”
“It’s ridiculous that we’re still doing that,” Bassitt said of the MLB COVID-19 protocol via SNY. “Stop testing. Stop acting like COVID. Much worse than many others. I’m not trying to get into it too much, but I get sick and have symptoms. I didn’t know. I don’t know for a week with zero symptoms. “
Bassitt informed the Mets that he was positive for COVID-19 on July 1st after taking the test at home and was unable to return to the team until Thursday when he was negative.
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Bassitt told reporters Thursday that he had no symptoms and regretted informing the Mets of his positive test.
“Now they’re coming out and saying we might be able to take the test, we could return to positive multiple times a month,” Bassitt added. “So we have to miss it many times-I think the answer is that I shouldn’t have said anything. I shouldn’t have said I was positive on the test and probably the rest of my career There will be no part. There is no reason. “
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Bassitt was strong when he returned to the mound on Friday night, allowing two earned runs in 6.1 innings. The Mets managed only 5 hits and 2 runs, but lost the second in a 4-game series against Miami.