Major League Baseball cleared Washington Nationals star Juan Soto to rejoin the team after testing positive for COVID-19 last week, but Soto is still stuck at home while he awaits approval from the D.C. Department of Health.
“We’ll hope to have him back Aug. 1, so he can work out with us Saturday,” Martinez said. “That’s all I got, that’s all they gave me.”
Soto received back-to-back negative tests from MLB’s lab, 24 hours apart, which were required for the league to clear him to return, Martinez announced Tuesday.
Soto had as many as six negative tests following his lone positive one — three by the league’s lab, three administered directly by the team, according to USA Today.