Michael Kay has a bone to choose with the Mets’ $765 million star.
YES Community’s play-by-play broadcaster sounded off on Juan Soto following feedback made by the 26-year-old outfielder about not being named an All-Star this 12 months, notably the “money on the table” with the snub.
“Talk about being tone-deaf,” Kay mentioned Wednesday on his self-titled program, as lined by Terrible Saying.
“Come on, Juan. The final I seemed, you make a smidge below $47 million this season. And you’re upset that you simply aren’t making the All-Star Recreation due to an All-Star bonus you’ve in your contract? Are you aware how dangerous that appears that you simply mentioned that? Even if you happen to thought it, high quality. What sort of expenditures do you’ve?
“I don’t even know what the bonus is. Let’s say it’s $500,000, which is nothing to sneeze at. But you do make $47 million this year. To even speak that, do you realize how it makes you look? There are gonna be players that make $40 million a year that are going to roll their eyes. Why would you even speak that into existence? Do you know how bad it makes you look?”
Soto, within the first season of his historic 15-year contract with the Mets, missed out of being an All-Star for the primary time in 5 seasons.
When requested Tuesday about not being elected, Soto acknowledged different gamers deserved a spot greater than he did.
“I mean, it’s a part of baseball,” Soto mentioned. “There is a lot of players out there with great numbers that deserve to be there. It’s a roster with only 25 guys. They can’t take all of the guys into it. It happens.”
Soto then responded to a follow-up query about whether or not he’d wish to make the staff, with a reporter noting some gamers wish to take pleasure in R&R on the break.
“What do you think?” he mentioned as media members laughed. “I think it’s a lot of money on the table.”
Soto’s first season in Queens has been a rollercoaster as he’s overcome early struggles to surge in the summertime.
He posted a .322 batting common in June, together with 11 residence runs and 20 RBIs, and is hitting. 264 with a .900 OPS for the season.
Kay, who initially believed that Soto’s feedback have been the product of “some AI nonsense,” was on the heart of Soto drama earlier this season.
He stirred buzz in Might by saying Soto was “very, very glum around the clubhouse” amid his hunch, and the way he needed to re-sign with the Yankees however moved to the Mets as a consequence of a household desire.
When Soto discovered his stride, Mets followers went after Kay, who then focused the fan base in a June tirade.
The Mets go to the Royals in a three-game sequence beginning Friday earlier than the All-Star break.
