Juan Soto -- looking like a bust for the Mets

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Originally Posted by Balticfox

Cherry picking? No. I didn't bother to go more deeply than his batting average and home run tital. And the newfangled WAR thingie I'm disinclined to check at all.

I'm assuming you consider stats like "Runs" and "On-Base percentage" new-fangled as well? Perhaps if you dug a little deeper than his batting average and home runs, you'd find that Soto has been on base the 4th most of any player in the MLB so far this year, which is translating to a lot of runs, which tend to help teams win games.

But as others have pointed out, its absurd to judge a 15 year contract well before the All-Star break of his 1st year in that contract.