Mets' Soto expects hostile reception in Yankee Stadium return

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Juan Soto has no illusions about the kind of reception he'll receive for his much anticipated Bronx return on Friday night.

Soto, who left the New York Yankees six weeks after their World Series loss to sign with the New York Mets on a record-setting 15-year, $765 million contract, knows that all eyes will be squarely on him when he makes his first trip back to Yankee Stadium for the opener of a three-game series between the two division leaders.

And he knows fans won't exactly be welcoming him with open arms.

"It's going to be 50,000 against one," Soto told the New York Post. "They're going to try to get on me, you know. It's part of it.

"Whatever they do, they have a right to do it."

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