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Trey Mancini Of Baltimore Receives News A Person, Player Never Wants To Hear

The word cancer is a word that a person or player never wants to hear but for Baltimore Right Fielder Tre Mancini that is what he is going through right now.

Mancini said that after his team physical at spring training, doctors informed him his blood tests showed he had low iron levels. He had an endoscopy and colonoscopy on March 6 and had surgery on March 12 to remove a malignant tumor from his colon.”according to an article by ESPN

Tre Mancini who is 28 had this to say about his diagnosis according to an article by ESPN

I'm getting chemo at a hospital in Baltimore, and I have to drive up there alone," he wrote. "Nobody is allowed to come in with me, and that's completely fine by me. I don't want anybody else being put at risk -- people that are close to me and that I love, and other people in the hospital. You just never know. COVID-19 has spread so quickly. I'm definitely trying to follow all the protocols, not only because it's the right thing to do, but also because I don't want to expose myself to anything, especially before going into chemotherapy."according to an article by ESPN

He added: "If baseball returns in 2020, it will probably be without me. according to an article by ESPN