Juan Soto gives Yankees’ anemic offense an enormous boost

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. Juan Soto makes perfect sense for the Yankees, and for two big reasons.

Reason No. 1 is obvious. Hes one of the games five or six best hitters, a power lefty bat who can now combine with Aaron Judge to form one of the best one-two punches in baseball history.

Reason No. 2 isnt all that obscure, either, if you really think about it.

Yes, you got it. Its that the Yankees offense stunk this season. And thats putting it mildly.

I know most enlightened fans dont pay much attention to batting average anymore. But the New York Yankees, the team built on the Babe and Murderers Row, should not be posting a .227 seasonal batting average.

Truly, no one should actually be putting up that sort of number, especially in a year when bases were enlarged and extreme shifts outlawed. The only other team to hit that low was the As, and we know they were doing everything they can to show how badly they need to leave Oakland (aside: mission accomplished, as they are well on their way to Las Vegas).

Juan_Soto_gives_Yankees_anemic_offense_an_enormous_boost 3Juan Soto’s addition will be a big lift to a Yankees’ offense that was below averages last season. APThe Yankees, meantime, werent trying to underperform. They posted that .227 average while trying. Which isnt easy.

The amazing thing is their outfield performed even worse offensively, and thats with Judge playing most months. Overall, the Yankees outfield had the lowest batting average (.220) and lowest on-base percentage (.293). Those arent numbers befitting a contender, much less a storied franchise built on the bat from Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig to Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle.

Now that the trade sending Michael King, Drew Thorpe, Jhony Brito, Randy Vasquez and Kyle Higashioka to San Diego for Soto and Trent Grisham is complete, we cant expect the Soto-Judge duo to match Ruth and Gehrig. But it still should be historically good. Soto took heat for underperforming last year and still posted a .930 OPS (not all that far below his .946 lifetime mark).

Lets not forget that was in Petco Park, too, which ranks 29th in park factor over the last three years. Moving into Yankee Stadium should be a major benefit for Soto, though we cant expect him to continue his lifetime .826 slugging average at the Stadium. Thats built on four home runs in 23 at-bats, which is a rate impossible to duplicate, even for him.

It wil be fun to see him try. Its also nice to see the Yankees behaving like the Yankees again. Which is to say they got the biggest basher they could get on the market. (Two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani isnt coming as word is he just couldnt see himself in New York.)

Soto will have no issue adjusting. The one blip on his rsum was 2022, after he was traded over from the Nats for five huge prospects, and he didnt hit like himself for most of the rest of that regular season. He did help the Padres into the NLCS that year after struggling early to live up to the press clippings and the trade.

Juan_Soto_gives_Yankees_anemic_offense_an_enormous_boost 3Juan Soto gives the Yankees another big outfield bat. Getty ImagesSoto may not also have favored the idea of going to the West Coast. We heard his parents didnt love the long distance from their home in the Dominican Republic. This should be more to his liking.

He cant mind the fact the Yankees are clearly going for it this winter either, having done the two biggest trades of the winter meetings (yes, sadly, the Alex Verdugo deal from rival Boston may be second a distant second but second nonetheless).

They are also going hard after 25-year-old Japanese pitching sensation Yoshinobu Yamamoto in what may come down to a rare New York-New York battle. As we reported Tuesday, it may cost the signing team $300 million, with or without the posting fee. But since the annual salary is somewhat reasonable and the posting charge isnt subject to the luxury tax, he makes extra sense for the Mets.

The Yankees probably also have a decent shot at Yamamoto. But it isnt going to be the gimme the Soto deal turned out to be. The only other team known to be interested in Soto was the Blue Jays, who are waiting on baseballs Godot yes, the great Ohtani.

Juan_Soto_gives_Yankees_anemic_offense_an_enormous_boost 3Juan Soto will now be playing his home games at Yankee Stadium. Charles Wenzelberg / New York PostAnyway, the Yankees possessed a nice enough stash of starting prospects with plentiful talent and ample service time to make the Padres concentrate on them.

Yes, I was against the Soto trade early, back when the Padres were asking for Jasson Dominguez and Anthony Volpe hey, it doesnt hurt to ask and way before things got reasonable. While the Yankees wound up relenting on the coveted reliever-turned-starter King and young right-hander Thorpe, who should both help San Diego, they held onto their cant-miss guys.

King is a nice pitcher who looks like he can adapt to starting, and Thorpe has really come on. But thats a deal the Yankees can live with. And its a deal we all can cheer.

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