There’s a fundamental delight, if you happen to belong to that struggling tribe of Mets followers, in watching Juan Soto pull on his No. 22 jersey, tug on the brim of his blue-and-orange hat and smile for the cameras.
He’s one of many 5 finest baseball gamers on the planet. He’s one of many 5 most entertaining baseball gamers on the planet. He was the topic of a bidding battle involving Babe Ruth’s Yankees, Ted Williams’ Crimson Sox, Jackie Robinson’s Dodgers (and the Blue Jays, positive).
And now, towards how we’ve been conditioned for generations, he’s a Met. Their No. 2 hitter and proper fielder, for the subsequent 5 years and possibly the subsequent 15.
However if you happen to tuned in to the pageant of Soto’s official introduction Thursday at Citi Subject, they didn’t reveal a complete heck of rather a lot.
