Today the Phillies revealed that Tommy Hunter, Hector Neris, Scott Kingery, and Ranger Suarez have been placed on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to June 30th. No specific injury designations for any of these guys.

Of course this results in speculation that the players have COVID-19, though the current MLB policy is to compile a separate Coronavirus related injury list:

Teams will not announce when players are put on this COVID-19 list, per MLB policy.

Here’s an explanation from story written earlier this week at the Associated Press:

Major League Baseball said Tuesday that a team will not specifically announce a COVID-19 injured list placement for a player who is removed from the club after testing positive, just an IL trip.

MLB’s operations manual says a positive test, exhibiting symptoms that require isolation for additional assessment or exposure to someone who has had the virus are cause for placement on the new COVID-19 IL.

After that tidbit of information came out earlier in the week, fans and media very quickly realized that it would be  easy to determine who might have COVID, based on the fact that, you know, those players would be completely absent from the various ballparks where teams are holding Spring Training II. For instance, if player X was missing from Citizens Bank Park for 14 days, after having not played baseball in months, we could probably do the math ourselves. It’s a weird situation that invites speculation.

If it means anything, this update didn’t come in email form from the team, but the status of the players in question was updated via the transactions page on the team’s official website, looking like this:

Third baseman Scott Kingery.