{"id":53756,"date":"2025-04-17T07:44:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=53756"},"modified":"2025-04-17T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:45:00","slug":"michael-kay-scolds-juan-soto-for-stating-a-fact-says-mets-fans-should-be-offended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=53756","title":{"rendered":"Michael Kay scolds Juan Soto for stating a fact, says Mets fans should be offended"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Michael Mike Francesa thought the New York Mets would be thrilled with Juan Soto\u2019s comments to the New York Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But of course, he didn\u2019t account for Michael Kay\u2019s feelings \u2014 something the Sports Pope has historically overlooked. The voice of the New York Yankees has already scolded the Bronx faithful for chanting \u201cF*ck Juan Soto,\u201d even though the Mets don\u2019t face the Yankees until May.<\/p>\n

Now, he\u2019s turned his ire toward Soto himself.<\/p>\n

When asked how pitchers are approaching him without Aaron Judge batting behind him, Soto simply pointed out that he saw different sequences last year and that he\u2019s adjusting accordingly. By acknowledging a verifiable fact, as Jarrett Seidler of Baseball Prospectus noted, Soto became the latest target in a manufactured outrage cycle, one to which Kay has eagerly contributed.<\/p>\n

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Juan Soto is seeing a pitch in the heart of the zone with a runner on base just 16 percent of the time, per Baseball Savant.<\/p>\n

Among players who have seen at least 100 pitches with a runner on base, Soto\u2019s percentage of pitches seen in the heart of the zone ranks as the lowest.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou just signed this magnificent contract with the Mets. You have pretty much sealed your fate with them for the next 15 years,\u201d says Kay on his The Michael Kay Show<\/em>. \u201cYou\u2019ll never play for another team, in all likelihood, unless there\u2019s this unbelievably unforeseen divorce, which I don\u2019t foresee happening. You can\u2019t tell Mike Puma of The Post<\/em> that you\u2019re being pitched differently because you don\u2019t have the greatest hitter in baseball behind you. It was your choice. It was your choice, Juan. You could\u2019ve spent the next seven years of your career with Aaron Judge hitting behind you. You chose to ignore that.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, if I\u2019m a Met fan, not only does it bother me that you seem like you have this wanderlust for a guy that you left, but it\u2019s also kind of a back-handed slap at Pete Alonso. Pete Alonso has been great. He has been great. He\u2019s hitting .345. He has an OPS of 1.146. He\u2019s done everything that you could possibly want. Now, teams are choosing to pitch to him rather than pitch to you. So, your average at this point is .250, you\u2019re getting a lot of walks\u2026 and after you said this to Mike Puma of the New York Post<\/em>, you went out and got a two-run home run yesterday against the Twins. So, you have two home runs and six runs batted in.\u201d<\/p>\n