Juan Soto’s numbers in the first year with each of his teams

After signing with the Mets, we take a look at Soto’s beginnings in each of the three teams for which he has played in MLB.

Juan Soto He will start 2025 playing for the fourth team in his career, which by 2025 will reach eight years in Major Leagues. Despite being considered a generational talent, the inability of his previous squads to achieve a contract extension when the player was under a rookie agreement forced him to be traded twice and after reaching free agency for the first time, he took the opportunity to go to the team that made him the historic offer of 765 million dollars for 15 years, New York Mets.

Obviously, Soto has been, since his arrival at Major Leaguesone of the best hitters in the entire American professional circuit. He has won various awards, he has been among the three best for the award of Most Valuable Player On multiple occasions, he has been the batting leader, among other achievements, which establish him as one of the biggest names in the game, so, in general terms, we know what to expect from the Dominican.

Without a doubt, playing for four teams in eight years has provided many memorable moments in different cities for Sotoso we will analyze the beginnings in each of those places, reviewing what he did “The Fair” during his first season with Washington Nationals, San Diego Padres and New York Yankees.

In 2018, the Nationals they went up to MLB to a 19-year-old young man named Juan Soto. In his first season with the team, the Dominican appeared in 116 games, hitting for an average of .292 with an OPS of .923 and an OPS+ of 142, while he hit 22 home runs and drove in 70 runs. That year he came second in the voting for the award of Rookie of the Year of the National Leaguestanding behind Ronald Acuña Jr. (Atlanta Braves).

By 2022, the Nationals they decide to send via exchange to Soto to the Parentswith whom he played 52 games in that first year. The outfielder had problems adapting to the dimensions of Petco Park, and he barely hit .236 with an OPS of .778, although he had an OPS+ of 127, hit six homers and drove in 16 runs, while scoring in 31 opportunities.

Subsequently and before the start of the 2024 season, the Parents they changed to Soto to the Yankeeswith whom the Dominican had the best offensive year of his career (without taking into account the shortened 2020 season). Soto He had personal bests in home runs (41), runs scored (128), as well as hits (166). He batted .288 with a .989 OPS and a 179 OPS+, while winning a Silver Batcame third for the prize MVP of the American League and received his fourth invitation to All-Star Game.

We’ll have to wait to see how it goes. Soto In his first year with the Metsbut all signs point to him having a great season, in a ballpark he already knows (from his time with the Nationals) and where he has traditionally hit and placed a .333 batting average with a 1.175 OPS and 12 home runs. in 35 games played.