Juan Soto’s first experience with COVID-19 protocols set up by Major League Baseball and Washington, D.C., was a two-week quarantine period spent in his apartment, after contact with someone who tested positive for the coronavirus at in-take testing in the first week of July.
Soto missed the first two weeks of Spring Training 2.0, upon returning to the nation’s capital from his home in the Dominican Republic, then got back to work in advance of the July 23rd season opener against the New York Yankees.
A positive test for the 22-year-old outfielder on Opening Day and another period of isolation later, Soto returned to Nationals Park for Saturday’s workout and scrimmage.