Is It Time to Worry About Juan Soto's Performance?

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00:00How worried should we start to be about Juan Soto?

00:02Are we panicking yet here?

00:03He's starting to pick up in New York.

00:05They're starting to get on him, not running out balls here.

00:07He's back.

00:08Now they move him in the lineup here.

00:10Are you just holding pat on Juan Soto?

00:12How worried are you about Juan?

00:16Yeah, you know, I think I'm a little bit concerned because if you remember,

00:21he had a season similar to this before he was with the Yankees.

00:26He was with the Padres.

00:27It was a little bit of a down year.

00:29He hit 27 homers, hit 270, excuse me, hit 242 that year with the Padres.

00:38It wasn't a great year.

00:40So, you know, we've seen it before, I guess is what I'm saying.

00:44So if he does it again, I mean, it shouldn't be that shocking, right?

00:49Yeah.

00:50And, you know, I mean, he even said, I believe he said about the Aaron Judge

00:55not hitting behind him.

00:56So, you know, that was bothering him, which is nuts because Pete Alonso is sick.

01:03So I don't know.

01:03Maybe he's just a little bit uncomfortable there.

01:06The pressure of the $765 million contract maybe is weighing on him a little bit.

01:16Yeah.

01:16I mean, I have no real, like, huge insight as to him turning around.

01:23Like, his numbers look relatively similar to previous years.

01:27But it's that, you know, the grounders to second base that really, and it's not just,

01:32I'm not just saying that because he doesn't, you know, he doesn't hustle down the line.

01:36So he's not running hard when he hits a ground at a second.

01:39I'm talking about the ground balls just in general.

01:42His ground balls are now over 50%, which is really bad.

01:46But it's also, like I said, it's what we saw that one year with San Diego when he struggled.

01:52So it's a similar pattern to when he struggled previously, which is, you know, it's pretty

01:58concerning for redraft leagues, at least.

02:02I mean, I imagine he will come out of it.

02:04And, you know, if you have him in a dynasty league, I wouldn't sell low.

02:08But if you have him in a redraft league, you know, if you could trade right now Juan Soto

02:14for Pete Crow Armstrong, that sounds incredibly crazy in, like, the first week of the season.

02:20But now, as we move towards June, yeah.

02:24I mean, that doesn't really sound that nuts to me right now.

02:29Gray, Ronald Acuna Jr. returned his first pitch.

02:33He hit a home run.

02:34He also got a hit.

02:36I mean, it's a really good sign.

02:38You know, what do you make of, you know, just generally speaking, we see this a lot

02:42of times, players who miss a long period of time, they come back, they do what they're

02:47doing.

02:47And you said you turned down a trade for Pete Crow Armstrong.

02:50Like, is this trade, it's very hard to, like, envision having Acuna, holding him this

02:56long, and then trading him.

02:58But it may be the best thing to do, right?

03:00Like, this is the moment.

03:01It feels like a hot baseball card.

03:02Guy comes up, does well.

03:04Yeah.

03:05Yeah, that's so true.

03:06I, you know, you're, you're saying that, and it's like clicking in my head that I should

03:10probably trade Ronald Acuna Jr.

03:13I have him.

03:14I have him in certain leagues.

03:15You're right.

03:16Because that is the feeling.

03:18Like, you get him back, and it's like, after so long of holding him, you're like, oh my

03:23God, any homers on his first pitch he sees?

03:25I'm like, oh my God.

03:27It's like, I won the lottery.

03:28It's like, no, you didn't win the lottery.

03:31You drafted him in the second round.

03:34You barely have one.

03:36You have, like, one game.

03:38What are you doing?

03:39Yeah, but you're right.

03:40I know, it feels like you really kind of want to move him right now.

03:44I, I worry about his running, you know, because, I mean, the knees just, they don't seem like

03:51they can hold up for him.

03:53Unfortunately, I mean, I want him to be able to steal bases, and if he's just hitting homers,

03:58as good as that is, it's replaceable.

04:01So, yeah, I don't know.

04:03I'm, I'm, now you've bummed me out.

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