The average New York Mets fan won’t have much rooting interest in the final scores of any Dominican Winter League game. Individual performances are what we care about far more. We want to see our guys do well.
We also don’t want to see certain players show up at all as anything more than spectators. The great fear with any Mets player participating in a non-MLB game is injury. We had Edwin Diaz get hurt in the 2023 WBC. The following winter, Ronny Mauricio blew out his ACL in the Dominican Winter League.
A prideful Dominican, Juan Soto was given permission by the Mets to participate in this year’s Dominican Winter League playoffs if the Tigres del Licey made it.