Juan Soto should be an All-Star

Call it the nature of fandom, call it unrealistic expectations, call it Yankee entitlement, call it whatever you want. But let’s be real: Juan Soto’s first two months as a Met felt weird. But since then, Soto has turned up the heat, and is on pace to have another statistically excellent season. And yet, Soto was not named to represent the Mets on the 2025 National League All-Star Game roster.

Through April 30th, Soto’s Met career was off to a slow start:

.241/.368/.384, 117 wRC+, 3 HR, 12 RBI, 2 SB, 16.9% BB%, 14.7% K%, .143 ISO

While the walk and strikeout rates were solid, the rest of his game was simply not up to what Soto has done in the past, let alone what a player recently signed to a…