Following up: White Sox make big dent in organization's vaccinations - Sox Machine

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The off day after the home opener is mostly a nuisance for fans who would rather have their first blast of baseball followed by by more baseball, but the White Sox made the best possible use of it.

The team announced that it knocked out vaccinations for more than 90 percent of its traveling party following Thursday’s victory over the Royals, which allowed them to use Friday to recover from any of the side effects. They still haven’t reached the 85 percent threshold across the organization needed to relax certain health and safety protocols, but Rick Hahn made it sound like it’s a matter of logistics, not reluctance.

“At this point, we have not yet been able to offer vaccines to all of our players and staff at Schaumburg,” Hahn said. “We were able to get a good number of them but not all of them. As a result, we are not yet as an organization over the 85% number. However, as I mentioned, we are well over 90% of the traveling party, that group that is in Chicago with us currently, and that group that will head on out to Boston and Cleveland later this week.”

I’d been wondering if we’d get an update on this front, although opening the season on the West Coast for seven straight games was the primary factor in the lack of news. It’s great to see the White Sox addressing it efficiently and enthusiastically upon their return home, given that the Cubs have spent their first week in Chicago debating the idea of vaccinations, even while their first-base coach contracted the virus.

Beyond the sad crosstown bragging rights, James Fegan described one of the key benefits of a teamwide buy-in — fewer teamwide dominoes should a case hit close to home.

“One of the strong benefits of the participation (in) the vaccination program is that when my phone rings and it’s (trainer) James Kruk on the other end, it’s more likely to be an actual baseball injury than it is something COVID related,” Hahn said. “If you are not vaccinated and you’re ruled to be a close contact to someone who contracts the disease, regardless of your positive or negative test, you’re down for seven-to-10 days, no matter what. If you have been vaccinated, you cannot be classified, at that point, as a close contact.”

At least Cubs prospects are apparently far more eager to get the vaccine in Arizona. Hahn said the Sox are working on a similar arrangement for their prospects and minor league staff at Camelback Ranch.

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When the White Sox announced their roster and schedule for the alternate training site in Schaumburg, they couldn’t yet announce whether Wintrust Field would be able to host fans for any of the games against the Cubs’ alternate squad, who would be traveling across Chicagoland from South Bend, Ind.

The Sox tied up that loose end this morning, announcing that Major League Baseball and the Village of Schaumburg permitted the hosting of 20.7 percent of the park’s main seating bowl. Tickets will cost $10 plus fees when they go on sale on Tuesday at 10 a.m. at wintrustfield.com and boomersbaseball.com, for the following dates:

• Saturday, April 24th at 1:00pm
• Wednesday, April 28th at 1:00pm
• Friday, April 30th at 12:00pm

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