Mendoza: Maybe frustration, lack of soto thrust

Juan Soto’s lack of thrust is probably due to frustration, says the New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza

Boston – the manager of the New York Mets, Carlos Mendozadid not want to go into details about the conversation what he had with the toleter Juan Soto after your Lack of thrust He will leave it with a single, instead of an extra. First game of the series against Boston Red Sox.

Mendoza said the frustration There could be influenced in the Soto response To a line in the sixth entrance, on Monday night, which bounced in the upper part of the green monster while Soto watched from the batting box in the defeat of the Mets 3-1.

“I think he is comfortable, but, I repeat, everything is new. Not only a new team, but also the new contract, expectations,” Mendoza told reporters before the defeat of the Mets 2-0 against the Red Sox on Tuesday night in the second game of the series.

That is our work as an organization: continue helping it. But I feel it is in a good time. And look, these are also results. There is a lot of noise here, but it will be fine. He is an excellent player, and we will be there to support him.

Mendoza was somewhat more comprehensive on Tuesday than after Monday night, when he said he would talk with the $ 765 million star, who is in his first season with the METS.

“He’s competing. I assure you,” he said. “It happens, man. They are human.”

Mendoza said Soto is not the first player to connect a single to the monster.

“Many times, the frustrations surpass them, especially with a guy like him. He is very talented and was very successful at the beginning of his career. Right now he feels that perhaps he could contribute something more to the team. And he is part of it, and that is part of the conversation here, understand the personal,” Mendoza said.

Mendoza said that Soto understands the additional pressure entails a huge contract and the expectations it entails. He added that this is part of Soto’s role as one of the best baseball players.

“Knowing the player, I’m quite sure there’s something there, because, I repeat, he is an elite player. He is a special player, and you know that he cares, he worries a lot,” said Mendoza.