At some point on the way back to Nationals Park from the Dominican Republic, Juan Soto came into contact with someone who eventually tested positive for COVID-19, so the 21-year-old who’s taken the baseball world by storm over the past two seasons had to stay at home for the last two weeks before he was cleared to come back and start working to get ready for the 60-game, 2020 campaign which starts next week.
“It was tough,” Soto acknowledged after he got multiple at bats in the Nats’ sim game in the nation’s capital.