When Juan Soto mentioned after signing with the Mets — selecting them over the Yankees — that he did so partly as a result of taking part in in Queens gave him “the best chances” to win throughout his prolonged (15 years) and profitable ($765 million) contract, it caught folks’s consideration, particularly when he specified “profitable” meant the World Sequence.
“We checked out what different groups needed to do and what everyone needs to do for the subsequent 15 years, and I feel we’ve got the perfect possibilities over right here,” Soto mentioned.
For just about all the previous 30 years, most observers would have mentioned Soto was fallacious and the Yankees have been the simple alternative in that class, however that’s now not the case.
Whereas the Yankees reached the World Sequence final season, the place they misplaced to the Dodgers in 5 video games, the Mets confirmed they weren’t far behind, shedding to the identical Dodgers workforce in six video games within the NLCS.
