Juan Soto, 21, got off to a late start in 2020, after coming into contact with someone who’d tested positive for COVID-19 on the way back to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic, and testing positive himself before Opening Day, though he remained asymptomatic through a quarantine period.
When he was cleared to play, after spending time with a bat in his hand in front of the TV trying to work on his timing while quarantined according to his manager, he came out of swinging.
In his first 24 games and 104 plate appearances in the month of August, Soto went 33 for 90 (.