{"id":34106,"date":"2025-02-22T21:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T21:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/juan-soto-mets-765m-signee-mashes-426-foot-homer-in-first-at-bat-with-team\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T21:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T21:07:52","slug":"juan-soto-mets-765m-signee-mashes-426-foot-homer-in-first-at-bat-with-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/juan-soto-mets-765m-signee-mashes-426-foot-homer-in-first-at-bat-with-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Soto, Mets\u2019 $765m signee, mashes 426-foot homer in first at-bat with team"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Soto hits solo shot in first spring training game<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/dec\/09\/juan-soto-contract-new-york-mets-mlb-baseball\">Why the Mets agreed to pay Juan Soto $765m<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Juan Soto homered in his first spring training at-bat for his new team, hitting a solo shot to left-center field in the first inning for the New York Mets against Houston on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Soto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/dec\/09\/juan-soto-contract-new-york-mets-mlb-baseball\">signed a record $765m, 15-year contract<\/a> this offseason, moving across New York from the Yankees to the Mets. He hit second in the order Saturday, between Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso, and drilled a 426-foot homer on a 2-1 pitch from left-hander Colton Gordon. The following inning, Soto drove in another run with a groundball.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/22\/juan-soto-home-run-first-new-york-mets-game\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soto hits solo shot in first spring training game Why the Mets agreed to pay Juan Soto $765m Juan Soto homered in his first spring training at-bat for his new team, hitting a solo shot to left-center field in the first inning for the New York Mets against Houston on Saturday. Soto signed a record &#8230; <a title=\"Juan Soto, Mets\u2019 $765m signee, mashes 426-foot homer in first at-bat with team\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/juan-soto-mets-765m-signee-mashes-426-foot-homer-in-first-at-bat-with-team\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Juan Soto, Mets\u2019 $765m signee, mashes 426-foot homer in first at-bat with team\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}