SOTO CRUSHES BASEBALLS WITH REGULARITY
Through Friday, the Mets without including the great Juan Soto?
They were hitting a meager .215, with 18 HRs and 82 RBIs in 664 ABs.
And Saturday? One run on 5 measly hits.
In fact, other than Soto, Baty, and Winker, if you could add 100 points to every single other Mets hitter, they’d have normal spring batting averages.
(Boy, do they miss Jose Iglesias. In 1,334 at bats from 2020 through 2024, you may not have realized he hit .302. Who else has? Not even Soto, I'd guess.)
Soto thru Friday, tho’? Thunder. 10 for 24, 2 HRs, 8 RBIs, .417/.462/1.000.
Soto is a "pharmaceutical"...an anti-depressant for Mets' sunken batting averages and run production. No harmful side effects, either. Other than to opposing pitchers, and Mets fans’ feelings of inexplicable euphoria when he drills pills off opposing pitchers.
Meanwhile...
The Yankees this spring, without Stanton or the great Soto?
Numero Uno in HRs (37), # 4 in batting average (.278), and 115 RBIs in 21 spring contests thru Friday. Bronx Bombers bomb.
Funny how that works, huh?
I know - spring stats mean nothing.
It's all about the Mets hitters getting ready - to make excuses for not hitting once the season starts, that is.
4 comments:
I looked back and we had readers asking for the Mets to sign Inglesias 10 YEARS AGO
The Mets have never had the kind of bat talent that Soto has
Not even Piazza
Agreed. Soto is nearly Barry Bonds.
Iglesias would have been slump insurance. The Mets slumped a lot in 2024 before he was called up, but no slumps thereafter for the Mets.
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