The return of the major leagues to prime time amid the COVID-19 pandemic suffered a blow of concern when one of its biggest young stars tested positive for the new coronavirus before it could take the box in 2020.
Juan Soto, the dazzling 21-year-old Washington Nationals outfielder, came off the opening list after testing positive for COVID-19, showed general manager Mike Rizzo on Thursday, hours before the World Series protectors opened. season with a national televised game opposed to the New York Yankees.
Soto among an organization of nationals who were quarantined for 14 days at the start of the team’s “summer camp” in Washington after flying on an MLB chartered flight from the Dominican Republic to Miami with a passenger who eventually tested positive for COVID-19. . Soto joined the team on July 16 and played exhibition matches against Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Rizzo says Soto is asymptomatic after spending Tuesday and receiving the effects thursday morning, and says no other national will be available for opening due to the ramifications of locating contacts. Nationals manager Dave Martinez said Soto had had a casualty four times before Thursday’s positive result.
As a component of their plan to return to the game after an interruption of approximately four months due to COVID-19, players are tested every other day, the effects deserve to be delivered within 24 to 48 hours. Soto is at least the 70th MLB player to publicly acknowledge his positive test; the vast majority of these positive effects occurred in admissions tests around July 1 or earlier this summer.
Even if Soto is fit, the positive test result will leave him out of a significant component of the 60-game MLB season. There is no era of isolation specified in MLB’s protection and fitness protocols, however, a player must have a negative result on consecutive controls for at least 24 hours, pass a medical examination, and be approved by MLB and Players Association doctors.
The Yankees are closing in. Aroldis Chapman tested negative for COVID-19 at the start of summer camp, but produced a positive made around July 9 to 19.
Soto played in an opposite exhibition to the Orioles as recently as Tuesday night; MLB protection and fitness protocols released before players return to team facilities mean that only players who have entered “close contact,” as explained through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will need to pass accelerated diagnostic control and be reviewed daily for seven hours. consecutive days.
CDC’s definition of “close contact” is a user “living in the same home, within six feet for fifteen minutes or more, or in direct contact with the secretions of a user in poor health with COVID-19 (e.g., coughing.). Near contact does not come with brief interactions, such as passingArray “
Soto hit 34 home races and 110 RBIs for the Nationals in 2019, then added five more playoff runs, 3 in his seven-game World Series win over the Houston Astros.
“I was crushed when I found out,” Martinez said in a video call Thursday.
Anthony Fauci, an immunologist and member of the White House Coronavirus Working Group, is expected to launch the first release before Thursday’s game.