On August 4, 2022, Whit Merrifield announced that he was now vaccinated and would be able to play in the team’s first game in Toronto since being acquired.
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Whit Merrifield was among ten Royals players who were in violation of Canada’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement and unable to travel to Toronto for a four-game weekend series right before the All-Star break two weeks earlier in July 2022.
Whit Merrifield is an American professional baseball second baseman and outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball who is also a three-time All-Star.
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In 2008, Whit Merrifield played collegiate summer baseball for the Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Whit Merrifield was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the ninth round of the 2010 Major League Baseball draft.
Overall with the 2020 Kansas City Royals, Whit Merrifield batted .282 with nine home runs and 30 RBIs in 60 games. On September 10, 2018, Whit Merrifield was selected by the MLB All-Stars at the 2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series.
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