The testimonials flow easily from Soto’s fellow All-Stars. Real knows real.
, he responded, “Any team should move heaven and earth to go get him, and the Nationals should be trying to keep him.” and — without the deal — Washington let Soto’s camp and the industry know that Soto is available now. There have been other exceptional players traded in recent years such as Mookie Betts, Paul Goldschmidt, Manny Machado and Trea Turner — all All-Stars this year — but it is difficult to find anyone who combines the youth, control and ceiling .
But contenders are going to imagine him hitting between, say, Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado with the Cardinals or Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr. with the Padres or Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton with the Yankees, etc. Soto — for Soto — struggled somewhat early in the season. But he has been more familiar of late, including 15 games in July in which he is hitting .409 with a 1.430 OPS. In his career against the pitchers named All-Stars this year he is 50-for-160 with 12 homers and nearly as many walks as strikeouts , including 4-for-6 with two homers versus Cole .
Soto arrived at this All-Star break with 20 homers, a .405 on-base percentage and an OPS 62 percent over MLB average factoring ballpark and league. Here is the list of those who did better through age-23 with a minimum of 2,000 plate appearances: Williams, Ty Cobb, Trout, Albert Pujols, end of list. It is why the ask by the Nationals is great and the line to try to obtain Soto long.
“Early in the year when we played when we looked at some of these numbers, me and [Dodgers catcher Austin] Barnes were talking about what you do to pitch to him and where’s his weaknesses are and there’s not really any,” said Dodgers shortstop Trea Turner, long Soto’s National teammate. “So it’s fun to watch if you’re on his team, and not fun to watch if you are not.”
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