MLB the ninth: Juan Soto questioned, Pete Alonso unleashed
Juan Soto is still in the midst of criticism, Pete Alonso benefited in Mets, Alex Rodríguez’s confession and much more in AM850’s novena.
1. Money and New York, two high rods for Juan Soto
Playing for any New York team requires high doses of patience and talent. In the great apple, fans and media demand you as if they were infallible in everything they do and the athlete has no other obligation to imitate them, be almost perfect, or be a victim of the scorn. That is why it is not surprising that Juan Soto, the man who signed the most lucrative contract in the history of the professional sport of the United States, has received boos and criticisms for his performance during the first two months of the season. In Queens, the player was expected more. Taking as reference what was done by Soto in the first three months of the year (March, April and May), the 26 -year -old Dominican is above the average, but that performance is not consistent with his bulky salary of $ 61,875,000 in 2025, the highest of all the baseball of the largest, for a difference of almost $ 20 million. (Zack Wheeler ($ 42 million) and Aaron Judge and Jacob Degrom, both with $ 40 million) are followed in that list. Soto’s statistics between March and May 2024 were VB 225; AVE .311; H 70; 2b 11; 3b 2; HR 15; Ci 49; BB 40; SO 43 and BR 4. Now, but in a similar period of 2025, Soto exhibited VB 208; AVE .230; H 48; 2b 11; 3b 0; HR 9; CI 27; BB 43; SO 42 and BR 7. The most considerable difference was on average batting, hits and home runs, but nothing that cannot be revealed in the remainder of the season. At least, for the partials of the Mets, the start of the Quisqueyano in June provides optimism. In June, traditional Soto statistics are VB 19; AVE .316; H 6; 2b 1; 3b 0; HR 2; Ci 4; BB 8; SO 2 and Br 0. While the sample is short, those numbers are more like what is expected by the Mets environment.
2. With memes, Yankees fans enjoy “Slump” by Juan Soto
Although the majority presuming that Juan Soto will warm up during the following in MLB, retaking his most valuable player caliber, in social networks New York Yankees fans continue if they forgive their move to the other sidewalk: Queens. It is evident that they have not exceeded their rejection of the offer made by the Bronx mules in the free agency and the unconditional love that they gave him during his brief one -year stay with the franchise. In the unwritten book of the fanatic (of any sport) nothing comforts more to lose (or that looks bad) to your rival, and the “bad moment” of Soto has been nothing more than the culture broth for the memes.
3. Pete Alonso turns on a candle to San Juan Soto
Juan Soto’s novel will have more chapters in regular season and playoffs. Meanwhile, who is most benefiting from his presence in the discipline of the METS, is the player who precedes him in the titular alignment, the initialist Pete Alonso. The ‘Polar bear’ of the METS spent work in the low season to sign an agreement in his free agency that satisfied him. His desire to get a long -standing contract was frustrated, however, so he has been rendering so far the situation, the campaign could be resolved when he could use the resistance clause agreed after the first year. Alonso has been the best batter of the Mets, leads the team in almost all offensive lines. So far it presents an offensive line of .298 AVE/ .397 ObP/ .580 SLU/ .977 OPS, which includes 36 extrabas (15 home runs, 20 doubles and 1 triple), 57 driven and 2.5 War. Alonso has not forgiven rival launchers, who “exhaust” trying to dominate the Dominican and become their victims. The penultimate game of the Mets in the series against Los Angeles Dodgers showed this detail. First, Tony Gonsolin fagged with Soto until he dominated him with second, but then served a candy to Alonso who did not forgive him and took her out of the park. In the eighth, something similar happened. Soto fajan with Ryan Loutos until he negotiated a ticket, then Loutos tried to lower decibels in his concentration and paid expensive, another homer of Alonso, who maybe he has a soto boblehead with a candle in front as a sign of gratitude.
4. Tony Gywnn, more assists than strikeouts
A few days ago, a statistic reappeared on social networks that causes exclamation. Tony Gywnn, the member of the Hall of Fame, and recognized for his exceptional touch, something not very common in the modern ball, he had more assists as a basketball player of the San Diego State University than stucks in his long career between 1982 and 2001. Gywnn attended 590 times to his classmates schoolboys, still record of the school, and was barely retired by the way 434 occasions. Gywnn was exalted to Cooperstown in 2007, when 532 of the 545 voters marked his box. He died in 2014 with just 54 years. To have an idea of his exceptional hit skills, Gwynn signed 45 four -hits games in his 2440 games career, while only struck out twice in the same game in 34 clashes. Awesome!
ARGULY MY FAVOURITE STAT EVER pic.twitter.com/mbqybpqxez
– BaseballHistorynut (@nut_history) June 1, 2025
5. Alex Rodríguez and his resignation at 700 hr
Alex Rodríguez loves reflectors. His career inside and outside the ground is a reliable example. So much time in the eye of the hurricane tanned him. It knows how to dosing and handling the times to get out and steal the media attention. A-Rod’s last play came this week when he explained why he decided to retire and give up the search for the 700 homers. I have the feeling that your words will surprise you, I, at least, I don’t think them. Nothing, that Alex again shows that he loves being on everyone’s lips …
A-Rod confesses that it hurt not to reach 700 hr, but he values his retirement with the Yankees
“696 with the Yankees are worth more than 700 with another uniform”
He said that 3 teams offered him the opportunity to continue playing to reach 700 flycracks, but rejected. pic.twitter.com/tjks1ztvol
– David Alcántara 👨🏽💻 (@MRALCANTARA4) June 2, 2025
6. The thousand and a pitching from Satchel Paige
Tarik Skubal, Zach Wheeler, Paul Skenes, Corbin Burnes and Yoshinobu Yamamoto would blush if by any chance this video falls into their hands. All of them are known for their domain from the hill and the variety of pitching who do to do their job, however, Satchel Paige, who played most of his career in the black leagues, retired at 59 years launching three innings without races against the Boston Red Sox and was exalted to the Hall of Fame in 1971, is at another level. I am not going to write you the names of their pitching because it would make this entry of the novena too long.
7. Big Papi, his dad and a baseball council
Now that parents of the parents are to bend the corner, I close this column with a story told by the Dominican David Ortiz about his parent. There I leave you with the occurrences of Big Papi, a man who has proven to be as good with the word as it was in the recent past brandishing with the wood.
8. José Contreras’s confession
Cubans are not few times that call us exaggerated when we talk about the Macondian situations that are lived daily on the island and how they influence our behavior. On many occasions … they don’t even believe us. Hence, listening to the conversation of José Contreras’s experience with our Swingcomplete colleagues, I found a fragment very interesting where he explains his first days with the New York Yankees, after “deserting” and signing with them. I do not advance you much, just that you are going to laugh … not to cry.
9. The ‘Perreo’ and his replica
And as we almost all like perreo on baseball grounds, here I leave you one of the most intense I’ve seen in recent times. They say that revenge is a dish that is tasted cold, because here the sample. And, less bad that it did not happen in a major league diamond, because it would surely have burned Troy.
