Giants' Bishop tests positive for COVID-19

Team's No. 4 prospect left off initial summer camp roster

Hunter Bishop collected five homers in 32 games last summer in his first season as a pro. (Jared Ravich/MiLB.com)

By Jordan Wolf

July 1, 2020

Giants No. 4 prospect Hunter Bishop tested positive for COVID-19 last Friday and subsequently was left off the team's 51-man initial summer camp roster released Monday. According to a report by MLB.com, San Francisco president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said Bishop has experienced “very mild” symptoms and his condition

Giants No. 4 prospect Hunter Bishop tested positive for COVID-19 last Friday and subsequently was left off the team's 51-man initial summer camp roster released Monday.

According to a report by MLB.com, San Francisco president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said Bishop has experienced “very mild” symptoms and his condition is improving. He hasn't been training or spending time with any other members of the team or coaching staff and will enter a two-week quarantine.

“I talked to Hunter yesterday,” Giants manager Gabe Kapler told MLB.com. “He's in Arizona. He's going to stay there for now and obviously do nothing for the next 14 days. He's in good spirits.”

Bishop was expected to join the team's top three prospects -- catcher Joey Bart, infielder Marco Luciano and outfielder Heliot Ramos -- in training with the rest of the 60-man pool in California. He could be able to join them after his two-week isolation is complete on the condition that he twice tests negative for the virus.

San Francisco picked Bishop with the 10th overall selection in the 2019 Draft. As a rookie last summer, he hit .229/.438/.429 with five homers and 12 RBIs in 32 games between the Rookie-level Arizona League and Class A Short Season Salem-Keizer.

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