The 2025 .650 13-7 first place New York Mets simply aren’t disappointing this April. In fact, the team has put the heroics on full display, pulling out all the stops both offensively and defensively. In retrospect, one may have seen this feasibile. Here’s why a semi cold Juan Soto start doesn’t warrant hitting the panic button.
Soto, the 26 year old superstar right fielder who recently signed a 15 year, $765 million dollar deal this winter, has a solid resume atop statistical evidence of plenty of unfinished business as far his career is concerned.
The right field phenomenon is a former New York Yankee and Washington Nationals standout.
His absolute career best season was perhaps with the Yankees last season. Although his 2021 in Washington was very impressive, where he put up a 7.3 WAR, hit 29 home runs, 95 RBI, batting .313 with 145 walks drawn, he wowed last year as well.
In 2024, the then 25 year old star had a 7.9 ERA, hit 41 home runs, 109 RBI, batting .288 with a .419 OBP.
This season is merely based on such a small sample size, as it’s mid April. Soto has a 0.8 WAR, having hit 3 home runs and 8 RBI, batting .225.
This sounds so similar to the 2021 of then newly signed superstar Fransisco Lindor.
Lindor took about a year to adjust to playing ball in the big apple, one state with such high scrutiny and perhaps the toughest to play in.
Lindor now is 31 and with 3 highly respectable seasons behind him in Queens. He has entered his name in yet another MVP conversation last season, and has drawn attention to the fact that he is deserving of the title of next team captain. The last was none other than Mets great third baseman David Wright, named captain in 2013.
I personally feel that Soto has not only a lot but way more to offer this team and he’s even younger than Lindor. Soto has so many potentially superb and standout years ahead of him where although he’s already proven to be a generational talent, he can still do so much more.
I simply cannot stress enough the fact that it does take time for any adjustment to be made. These guys not only have a very tough job, adjusting to hard throwing pitchers and life in MLB, but they have personal lives outside of baseball, and families of their own.
In time, Soto, much like his teammate Lindor, will fit in perfectly and contribute his part. It’s just a matter of letting him get adjusted.
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