New York — Juan Soto He had several questions for New York Mets During the negotiations of the free agent in the last winter. One of them was about building the squad.
Soto had just spent the 2024 season in Bronx in the historically fruitful duo, which conducted continuous comparisons with Ruth Batt, Lu George. He and Harun judgeMVP, it was a hard puzzle to the solution in New York Yanxiz‘Lined up. Soto left the left in second place. The third right judge fought. They protected each other and crushed jugs. Leaving Yanxiz means leaving the judge.
“This was one of the main parts of the discussion,” Soto told ESPN in Spanish on Tuesday. “Who was going to succeed me?”
The answer seemed clear. Alonso House He remained a free agent. The first rule man is local and loves in Queens. More importantly, for construction purposes in the collection, it is right rock. It is not at the judge level – who is he? – But it is classified directly behind the judge at home since he first appeared in 2019. It was a clear supplement to Soto.
“I told them that the best option is,” Soto said.
By late January, Alonso’s return is still unlikely. The owner of the Mets Steve Cohen, during the event of fans at Citi Field, described the negotiations “exhausting” and “worse” than Soto’s endeavor. He left the door open, but a lot in front of the Mets fans’ grief in the crowd on that day, and he also said that the organization was ready to move from all the stars four times.
Less than two weeks later, just days before training in the spring, the sides reached an agreement on a two -year contract with the cancellation of the subscription after this season. The 30 -year -old Alaonso appeared to have been in Mits’s past to protect the franchise of $ 765 million. Two months after the partnership, the early returns for the 2025 Soto season supports. The best example came on Tuesday’s victory over Miami Marles.
The Mets team, which leads 6-5, was racing against the corners with one in the sixth-half of Soto. Marilyn’s director Clayton McColeu brought in Hander right Ronnie Henriezer – Despite the initial hostility, the extraordinary decision was made to deliberate Soto. This has downloaded Alonso bases and created an opportunity to play the double half with right-wing competition-although MCCULOGH made another unusual invitation by dragging on the field and the external party. METS director Carlos Mendoza said he was not surprised by Marilyn’s decision to walk in Soto.
“I think it reaches a point where you choose a fish there,” said Mendoza.
Later, Alonso broke a 93 miles laundry in the field gap in the left center to get triple bases, and the game is blown open in the afternoon cold in Queens.
This was the second of the day in the first – the first, the first player in Texas to the right field in the third half, in the first two halves in Mits. Alonso worked as a crime engine in the three hole, behind the bullet man Francisco Lindor And Soto, Hit.
“It seems that the teams are trying not to overcome Soto,” Mindoza said. “Then, before you know that, they make mistakes with a house, and he was ready to go and make them pay.”
Alonso looks to the opposite of a three -year decrease in offensive production, making better decisions after an offensive campaign in his career in 2024. It is early, but so far Alonso comes out of the stadiums outside the strike area often. It is the stadium barrels above the plate higher. It crush the stadiums in the other direction-in the opening match of Mits on Friday, he collected a quick ball 95 miles per hour from Kevin Gaousman Below and out of the strike area to run at home on the right field.
The Soto, which has a percentage on the basis of. 404 as MET, made his work a little easier.
“He is a professional,” Alonso said about Soto. “Obviously, we know that he has strength, and he has a success tool.
With more stadiums to SOTO, the most disciplined hit in the game, more pressing the jugs comes. With more contestants on the base, more stadiums – fast balls – come above the panel for Alonso to devour. It is the Soto format that it depicts during the winter. Whether it extends beyond this season is still unknown.
There is no doubt that it is popular with fans. During the opening match of Mets’ Home Friday, Citi Field chanted to Alonso during pre -vessels. The fans did this again when he entered the mixture box for the first time. And then again, a few moments later, when he got out of the hideout to call a curtain after you arrived at home.
This week, one option was made to replace Alonso from the plate when he was the first rule man Vladimir Guerrero Junior. and Toronto Blue Jays He agreed to extend the contract for 14 years, 500 million dollars. Guerrero’s contract should help win the capabilities of Alonso if he chooses, as expected, to cancel his contract and hit a free agency again this winter.
Currently, in his seventh season, Alonso flourishes as the first Mitts base man, hitting behind his most valuable team player.
“That’s why you want [protection] Like this, Soto said. But whenever they do not want to put me, I know that I have a man behind me may make it worse for them. “
