Soto, who spurned the Yankees for the Mets on a $765 million deal in the offseason, was the subject of a lot of reporting over the past few days, including NJ Advance Media’s Bob Klapisch, who said that Mets officials were “concerned about Soto’s lack of enthusiasm for his new team.”

The New York Mets have started the 2025 MLB season pretty much how they envisioned. At 29-19, they are just a half game behind having the best record in the National League. Surpri

It got to a point that by Sunday, Soto had no interest in doing an agreed-upon in-game interview with ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball. According to a report from NJ.com, Soto simply was tired of being asked about Aaron Judge and the move to the Mets.

Although Soto said he was ready for the homecoming, he was shell-shocked by the time Sunday night rolled around. Three sell-out crowds broke him. With only one hit in the Subway Series, Soto couldn’t have picked a worse time to slump. The army of Yankees loyalists crowned him as the new Jose Altuve.

That other Juan Soto thing — the one that has a lot to do with why he is the highest-paid player in history — where he cuts through pressure and rises to the occasion has been absent so far through a night and a day back at Yankee Stadium.

Rivalries are often more for the fans than for the players on the field themselves, and the Subway Series hasn’t always lived up to the hype.